Word: pinpointing
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...journal Nature, a team of scientists working on the public project reported that they had finished decoding chromosome 21, the strand of DNA responsible for, among other things, Down syndrome. And a California company, DoubleTwist, Inc., said it had used data from the public genome project to pinpoint 65,000 individual genes, out of the 100,000 or so in each human cell...
...strikes. Pentagon researchers are busy developing aviation assets even tinier than such mechanical sparrows. They're training honeybees, parasitic wasps and giant sphinx moths to detect land mines and caches of biological and chemical weapons. Outfitted with radio backpacks, each smaller than a grain of rice, the insects will pinpoint the location of such deadly weapons for destruction by U.S. forces...
...than only within the heart itself." For example, Smith explains, a systolic reading not only shows the force the heart is required to exert in order to push blood past resistance points, it also measures the pressure generated within vessels to keep blood moving to different organs - which can pinpoint a patient's risk for stroke or general damage to blood vessels...
While Schroeder says he would have to put more time into studying the workings of Harvard before he could pinpoint the changes he would attempt to institute, he says the recent capital campaign forces a crucial rethinking of the University's goals...
...roaring slapshot, the primal urge to throw somebody into the boards, the sheer ecstasy of scoring the beautiful goal—to seek these is all the libido we could ever need. Romance and relationships are noisy and complicated, inevitably fraught with unpleasant difficulties. But a simple, crisp, pinpoint pass from one end of the ice to the other—executed with just a single, silent look—is nothing less than two souls moving in perfect harmony...