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.

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That is the goal at a shop a few miles down the road from U.S. Genomics, at Harvard, where biophysicist Daniel Branton and colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA, one letter at a time, through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.

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She started Enabled By Design to share information about better designed, cheaper and more attractive alternatives.

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Design for quality by creating better education programs, standards, and curriculum and exams, while leaving lesson plans up to teachers.

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And, of course, no one is better suited to reinvent this role than a woman who, by design or default, has learned to reinvent herself so often.

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Since we last arrived in your home in June, we've gone up in size by 117 percent, the better to show off our new design (the work of creative director Sue Llewellyn) and our enhanced production values, in particular the dramatic increase in original photography.

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Using microstructured materials, it should be possible to design a helmet that is better able to withstand localised impacts, by absorbing them throughout the helmet.

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The project was conceived, designed, constructed, and opened in four years, whereas the Heathrow terminal, from conception to completion, took twenty years. (That building, by Richard Rogers, is a somewhat compromised version of his original design far better than the rest of Heathrow, but much less interesting than Rogers meant it to be.) These widely divergent timetables are not a matter of Chinese efficiency versus British dallying: the British, like the Americans, pay the price of democracy.

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