"For example." "we cannot determine if a drug is going to work in a human being, and be safe in a human being by testing that drug in cell culture models.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Although we run it on a laptop so that we can monitor its operation, the algorithm itself doesn't require a lot of computer power and could easily be run from a chip that has the capabilities of one that's already in insulin pumps or in cell phones."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

But first,Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

"For example in Rwanda, where cell phone-based technologies are being used to keep track of dispensation of drugs to patients with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

To make that genome, the researchers replaced all the natural genetic material in a bacterial cell with a synthetic set of genes.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

"Back in the nineteen eighties when I was dating without computers, cell phones,text messaging, instant messaging, people had to be more organized.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

We talked with Jamaica Corker, on her cell phone, at the Population Services International office in the D.R.C.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

In other studies, bone marrow transplants cured severe sickle cell disease in almost two hundred children.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Genes decide how and when each kind of cell will develop in differing organs.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Genes tell every cell in an organism what qualities or characteristics it can develop.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Last week,researchers in the United States reported curing nine adults with sickle cell disease.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Black people in Africa are the huge majority of those with sickle cell disease.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

He says it is the first cell whose parent was in a computer.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The project hopes to export hydrogen fuel cell buses in the future.

VOA: special.2009.09.07