But like Melton and many of his colleagues in research, Lanza said this stance ignores the basic science, and both kinds of research will be crucial to the success of the entire field.

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Dr. O'BROCHTA: The basic idea is that the kinds of changes that insect geneticists are trying to make in mosquitoes could actually help propel the use of these changes into nature and not slow them down.

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The guru of the grower movement is Anselme Selosse, who studied in Burgundy and brought back to his father's domain in Avize all kinds of new ideas, including the basic insight that everything begins in the vineyards.

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The basic idea behind Dover Street Market was believing that by gathering various kinds of creation together, and giving free reign, the "fashion of now" would become chaotic, and within that chaos, through synergy and accident, each brand would shine more brightly and with a different power than when all alone.

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Moreover, the law does little to address the more basic problem of a patent system that has grown in expense for all kinds of companies that want to protect their ideas.

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Once you have a basic level of hardware functionality (what is called a Turing machine) all kinds of applications can be created with a mixture of hardware and software.

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