Features included a heads-up display with night vision, a DNA-based entry and ignition system, body panels that changed color on the driver's command and an "auto valet" feature that let the car drop off its owner then park itself for recharging.
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According to Norah Rudin, a forensic-DNA consultant in Mountain View, California, forensic scientists are beginning to accept that cognitive bias exists, but there is still a lot of resistance to the idea, because examiners take the criticism personally and feel they are being accused of doing bad science.
Joseph Kim of Inovio, an American start-up, says his firm has devised a DNA-based method to produce a universal flu vaccine.
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Three strands of DNA were synthesized so that when they were put into a test tube, they immediately became a molecular motor--a pair of DNA tweezers, held together at one end by a third piece of DNA that could be made to open and shut by adding or subtracting a fourth DNA strand.
The monumental effort to sequence the entire human genome -- to spell out the 3 billion or so combinations of those letters in a cell's DNA -- is keeping a lot of academic and commercial laboratories busy.
Palaeogeneticists at the University of Copenhagen and Michael Bunce at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia determined the half-life after studying a set of 158 DNA-containing bones from an extinct species of bird called "moa" (a feat in and of itself).
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The commission has developed a system for DNA-led identifications on a mass scale.
This new breakthrough -- when combined with the DNA-based data storage and a method to transmit DNA between cells the school's already working on -- means that Stanford has created all the necessary components of a biologic computer.
Its boffins in Bangalore are working on projects ranging from a red laser to preserve food to a DNA nano-machine to deliver drugs to precisely the right spot in a patient's body.
Metagenomics takes another approach, basically putting an entire environment--the water in an ocean, the soil in a forest or the insides of an animal--into a DNA sequencer.
But I do wonder how easy it will be to get a research-level DNA sequence if sequencing manages to get on the medical reimbursement gravy train.
There, a DNA-sequencing machine fired lasers at the fragments and read their genetic code, yielding a computer file in the form of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
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"All profiles must be uploaded and the failure is not acceptable for a world-class DNA lab that prides itself on accuracy and attention to detail, " the lab said.
He used a new DNA-sequencing technique called whole-genome shotgunning that he and a colleague, Hamilton Smith, had invented, and patented a good tranche of human genes on the way.
That's the goal at a shop at Harvard, where Daniel Branton, a biophysicist, and his colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA--a letter at a time--through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.
But that is a DNA-meditated function.
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The prosecution also claimed that a low-level mixed DNA profile from Mr Shivers was also uncovered from a third used matchstick which was found on the roadway near the car.
Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.
"The man in Canada has a diagnosed medical condition and we need the permission of those treating him to take a DNA sample - to do this we are seeking the assistance of the Canadian authorities, " said Det Supt Langley.
By adding a solution that releases both the plant and the human DNA from the paper, the geneticist can then analyze the DNA for his or her chosen purpose--for example, to look for a mutation in the human DNA sequence--with the rice DNA sitting alongside harmlessly and acting as an ID tag.
DNA, though, offers a key advantage over the other nature-inspired methods: Since DNA isn't a living thing, it can sit passively in a test tube where it is less subject to biological changes.
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Enter DoubleHelix Tracking Technologies, a Singapore-based firm that uses DNA testing to pinpoint where a piece of wood is from.
Four-stranded DNA, a database of alien planets, a new super-chemical to kill hospital bugs and a byzantine gamma-radiation blast.
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Geneticist Elizabeth Worthey worked on the first-ever treatment of a patient based on DNA sequencing, helping doctors decide to give a bone marrow transplant to a 6-year-old boy who had suffered through more than a hundred operations.
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Seeking a partnership with DNA, Tilton led a two-day negotiation in New York that, according to Mullin, painted a rosy picture of Swift and their mutual money-making potential.
This revealed the four-stranded DNA arose most frequently during the so-called "s-phase" when a cell copies its DNA just prior to dividing.
In addition, there was a reduction in the amount of DNA damage - errors that occur when a cell divides - seen in the three groups.
In 1976 biochemist Herb Boyer and venture capitalist Robert Swanson started Genentech around a new technology, recombinant DNA. They created a brand-new industry, biotechnology.
It says partial approvals like the one for StarLink should be discontinued and that a procedure for testing for the presence of unapproved DNA should be a pre-condition for a crop's approval.
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Because using a new ultra-sensitive assay, small amounts of DNA from a pig virus were detected in the vaccine preparation.
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