The single, long DNA-based string was chopped up into about 150, 000 fragments, each 120 letters long.
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Nor may names be obscene, in bad taste, too similar to any existing name, or more than 16 letters long.
So lab workers must slog through two weeks of tedious preparation, chopping the DNA into fragments 500 to 1, 000 letters long and making millions of copies of each.
The idea has merit, but when I think about how long some engagement letters already are, the value of adding another paragraph, beyond CYA for the preparer, is limited.
Born in 1922, Kerouac began writing from an early age and took to carrying a notebook with him wherever he went, scribbling down notes and penning long, rambling letters to friends and family.
The 276 inhabitants of the volcanic island still face a long wait for letters and parcels - mail comes via Cape Town and must be put on board a fishing vessel for the 2, 800-kilometre journey to the island.
For historians, the Paston Letters have long been a fascinating insight into the soap opera lives of gentry in the Middle Ages.
Each DNA molecule in the body contains two long strands of chemical letters, or bases--A, T, C and G--that come together like a twisted ladder (a.k.a. the double helix).
Passwords for all accounts should be 10 characters long and include upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters.
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She confides her father would send her handwritten letters--sometimes as long as 20 pages--giving her advice on life, wealth and business.
But far from the mass ruination envisioned by these proselytizers, most of the long-term top-performing investment letters are using the panic to find great buying opportunities.
That's 30 letters and two spaces, too long for the Inland Revenue's online form.
This is the first collection of his letters, and, ample though it is, it represents only a small proportion of the huge number of letters that Toscanini wrote in a long life.
Issuers are scrambling to refinance into proper long-term bonds, or asking banks for letters of credit.
The Committee sent letters to the companies Monday asking how long user data was stored and whether or not they planned to allay privacy concerns.
She says she kept the letters hidden in a closet for so long after the war in order to spare her children the burden of growing up with guilt about their mother's Holocaust experiences.
This has resulted in a long-term drop in traditional mail volumes, particularly letters, and declining demand for conventional post office services.
He refused to let the job kill him either, delegating where he could and, in the long pauses of his working days, writing boyish love-letters to his wife.
Last summer her team hit pay dirt: They found a tiny alteration of just four chemical beads, or "letters, " in the 35, 000-letter-long Flap gene.
What they did was mail letters to 10 fake addresses in 159 countries and see how long it took them to be returned, and what percentage of them are returned.
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The paper was just three pages long, and it introduced what would arguably become the most famous string of letters and numbers in the world.
Meanwhile, local accountants said the agency sent letters to some taxpayers offering them "amnesty" if they paid long-overdue taxes when in fact no taxes were owed that tax year.
While the game makers were tempted to use the shorter name, the long version won out, even though it took five lines of space to fit all the letters on the standard railroad square.
Jean Benedetti, an authority on the history of Russian theatre, has gathered together a rich volume of letters that charts the course of their intense love affair and artistic collaboration during the long spells they were obliged to spend apart.
Among the long list of agreements made during the summit are expanded economic cooperation and a proposed exchange of video letters between families separated by the divided Korean peninsula.
Increasingly, legendary activist investor Daniel Loeb, founder of New York-based hedge fund Third Point LLC, has long locked-in his reputation in the investing world largely by stirring media controversy through his very public shareholder letters that boldly highlight his aggressive attempts to push for change and replenish company board seats.
Many of them will have been among the legions of fans whose letters bombarded Sir Patrick, each of which would get a reply bashed out on Sir Patrick's long-suffering Woodstock typewriter.
I, Sam Pulsifer, am the man who accidentally burned down the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, Massachusetts, and who in the process killed two people, for which I spent ten years in prison and, as letters from scholars of American literature tell me, for which I will continue to pay a high price long into the not-so-sweet hereafter.
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