Word: sifting
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...Neil Cashman thought he had the answer. The University of Toronto scientist had spent his career trying to sift out the misshapen clumps of proteins thought to cause neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that hid in a sandbox of normal proteins. In 2002 he finally succeeded, using a chemical agent to alter normal proteins but not so-called aggregated misfolded ones, leaving the clumps easier to detect. It would become the formula for a diagnostic kit usable by blood banks everywhere...
...Saatchis in collection building, gallery economics, art investment and the growing role of art fairs themselves. They're "popping up everywhere now," says the Institute's public programs manager Lyn Calzia, and with the weedlike growth of the contemporary art market, "there's such a vast amount to sift through...
...almost impossible to determine how many flights are getting delayed on the tarmac. Smallen acknowledges that the available BTS data cannot accurately answer that question. To find data on Hanni's flight, Mogel - who runs a business developing software products - had to sift through FAA records to see when and where her flight actually landed. "That process of brute force takes about 30 minutes per flight," he says. "In 2006, there were 120,000 cancelled flights and 16,000 diverted flights. We're talking 136,000 flights to look at." Castelveter admitted that with new reporting procedures, the BTS data...
...second day as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown warned Britons, "We face a serious and continued security threat to our country," and his new Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has already twice chaired the government's emergency response committee, Cobra. As investigators hurry to try to sift fact from a distracting mess of theories, they'll hope that Agent Luck remains on their side...
...nineties when people said, ‘What, you need more money? What do you need more money for?’” Rudenstine explains. “There are very good answers, but the answers are only good if you take the time to sift through and say ‘look, here are a number of extremely important things...