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...selective, temporary blackouts, however - hopefully avoiding hospitals and other critical areas - won't get the system off the brink. Deregulation, instituted with much pomp five years ago under Gov. Pete Wilson, started off strong. But when the Silicon Valley boom hit and demand skyrocketed, all those companies that were supposed to come to the Golden State to build new power plants and join the marketplace didn't come fast enough. Existing power suppliers had rising natural gas prices to worry about, and soon found ways to milk the market (and Cal-ISO) for as much as the traffic would bear...
...home--prepare to change forever the way doctors fight disease. They're not alone: spurred by the prospect of scientific glory and enormous profit, big pharmaceutical firms and university and government labs have been joined by scores of new companies, not just in Cambridge but in Montgomery County, Md., Silicon Valley and other high-tech hot spots around the nation. It's a virtual gold rush to mine the mountain of potentially valuable data the genome contains...
Nowhere has Silicon Valley had a more direct impact on biology than in the invention of the miniature laboratory bench known as the DNA microarray. Microarrays detect active genes by exploiting the fact that when the two strands of a gene in the double-stranded DNA molecule are separated, each can readily pick its partner out of a crowd of similar molecules. In a typical microarray, thousands of single-stranded gene fragments are fastened to a platform--usually a silicon or glass wafer but sometimes a nylon sheet. The finished assemblage can be as small as a postage stamp...
...medicines have been discovered for the past 100 years (and for millenniums before that), is yielding to drugs by design. Increasingly scientists, armed with blueprints for our genes, can identify the individual molecules that make us susceptible to a particular disease. With that information--and some high-speed silicon-age machinery--they can build new molecules that home in on their targets like well-aimed arrows...
...medicines have been discovered for the past 100 years (and for millenniums before that), is yielding to drugs by design. Increasingly scientists, armed with blueprints for our genes, can identify the individual molecules that make us susceptible to a particular disease. With that information--and some high-speed silicon-age machinery--they can build new molecules that home in on their targets like well-aimed arrows...