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Molecular Libraries: Creating a Unique Research
Tool
Roadmap 'Pathways' Boldly Go Where No Others Have |
| By Carla Garnett |
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One of hundreds of 1,536-well microtiter
plates that NCGC uses for all of its screening |
What if you glanced around at your workload
and figured that — even if you toiled away at a superhuman
pace — you'd still need 10,000 years to get the job done?
Essentially that's what's facing Dr. Christopher Austin and his
colleagues at the NIH Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC). And rather
than shrink from seemingly insurmountable odds, Austin and dozens
of scientists like him are rallying around their gargantuan objective:
To learn what happens to all the proteins in the human body when
they are exposed — individually — to all the known
chemicals in the universe.
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Kids Rule
Studies Show Children Are Prime Force In Language
Change |
| By Belle Waring |
We know that when tots start talking, they learn
fast — words tumble out of the mouths of our babes. Yet because
we live in language the way fish live in water, we may take its
acquisition for granted. There's more to it than naming things — grammar,
too, must be learned. Rules of structure deploy words in action
the way a fish's backbone gives it swimming power. Yet since language
is a living, breathing thing, rules can change.
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