Word: scientists
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...skin biopsies (soon found to be unnecessary) and blood samples were sent, along with pedigree data, to James Gusella, a young Canadian scientist working at Massachusetts General Hospital. Using a new technique, he was able to locate a DNA marker close to the Huntington's gene. It lay toward the tip of the short arm of chromosome 4. That discovery led to the development of a test, now 96% accurate, that can determine the presence of the errant gene long before any symptoms show...
Guests on the first show will include MIT research scientist James Womock, author of The Machine That Changed the World and Richard Wirthlin, a former pollster for the Reagan administration...
...that turning the documents over to the prosecutors may allow them to concoct a case against him. So why did he go to jail at all? "He wants to see if he can defuse the ((case)) by wrapping himself in the mantle of the civil rights movement," speculates political scientist Steven Daniels of the University of Alabama at Birmingham...
...Many scientists rely on elaborately complex and costly equipment to probe the mysteries confronting humankind. Not Melissa Hines. The UCLA behavioral scientist is hoping to solve one of life's oldest riddles with a toybox full of police cars, Lincoln Logs and Barbie dolls. For the past two years, Hines and her colleagues have tried to determine the origins of gender differences by capturing on videotape the squeals of delight, furrows of concentration and myriad decisions that children from 2 1/2 to 8 make while playing. Although both sexes play with all the toys available in Hines' laboratory, her work...
...meet them, the Bartels (who are just a little bit too goopishly written and played) have one pluperfect daughter and are expecting what turns out to be an ideal little brother for her. Michael is a scientist doing what we understand to be socially useful research. Claire does volunteer work at the botanical gardens. Clearly they like to grow new things. At the same time, however, they have a decent respect for tradition: their house is a handsomely refurbished old place, tastefully decorated with antique mission furniture...