In a village in Hubei province, a woman who made money raising silk worms and planting tea spent a good part of her profits making sure her daughter learned howtouseacomputer.
Aspiring innovators in developing countries like South Africa begin their journey by figuring out howto gain access toacomputer and the internet, and learning howtouse them.
Rosetta brings two technologies to bear on sluggish drug development: chips that have been covered with a series of genes using what is essentially a modified inkjet printing process, and powerful computer algorithms that use pattern recognition technology to show how whole sets of genes are being turned on and off.