Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, the team expects Majmudar to have recovered enough from his maladies to play, restoring his partnership with Blake--the No. 2 ranked tandem in the nation...
Gretzky scored a hat trick in a 3-2 Game four second round victory over the Florida Panthers. The tandem guided the Rangers to the Eastern Conference finals before running...
Gretzky scored a hat trick in a 3-2 Game four second round victory over the Florida Panthers. The tandem guided the Rangers to the Eastern Conference finals before running...
...that started to change. It was then that Caroline Caskey, 32, a French-literature major turned business student, thought to combine cutting-edge DNA analysis with old-fashioned, hawk-the-product marketing. A few years earlier, a lab headed by her father Thomas Caskey patented something called the "short tandem repeat," a shortcut method of sampling DNA. Caskey saw the new technique for the cash cow it could be and founded Identigene, advertising her father's technique as a simple and--at $475 a test--affordable way to establish paternity. Launching an ad blitz that included direct mail, TV talk...
...business is not without controversy, however, most of it centered on tricky questions of privacy. Short tandem repeat technology is so sensitive that it can identify DNA from little more than the saliva residue on a soda can. "A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual," says Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "No one wants someone snooping into...