Word: superchip
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...Genetic "Superchip...
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago have designed a special-purpose biochemical "superchip" that can determine gene sequences -- the precise arrangement of the chemical building blocks that make up a strand of DNA -- 1,000 times as fast as conventional means. If it performs as promised, the 1-in.-sq. chip could shave years -- and hundreds of millions of dollars -- off the Human Genome Project, the worldwide effort to decipher each of the 100,000 genes found in a human cell...
...course, when you pop out your stock chip and replace it with a superchip, you break your warranty and you may violate the Clean Air Act, which was amended last year to require that high-performance parts meet the emissions standards of the car for which they are built. Today most superchip makers are scrambling to bring their products up to that code. Meanwhile, a California start-up called Adaptive Technologies has introduced a nifty gadget that lets you drive around in your superchipped wheels and then, when it's inspection time, switch back to the original chip with...
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