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  • Hundreds more have been released after being proved innocent of noncapital crimes through DNA testing.†   (source)
  • Lodged in my every cell, along with the DNA, are molecules of topsoil and atrazine and paraquat and anhydrous ammonia and diesel fuel and plant dust, and also molecules of memory: the bracing summer chill of floating on my back in Mel's pond, staring at the sky; the exotic redolence of the dresses in my mother's closet; the sharp odor of wet tomato vines; the stripes of pain my father's belt laid across my skin; the deep chill of waiting for the school bus in the blue of a winter's…†   (source)
  • Science even presumes to rearrange our own DNA.†   (source)
  • Plenty of time to extract DNA and "grow" as many copies as they needed.†   (source)
  • And when she said this, I saw myself transforming like a werewolf, a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered, replicating itself insidiously into a syndrome, a cluster of telltale Chinese behaviors, all those things my mother did to embarrass me--haggling with store owners, pecking her mouth with a toothpick in public, being color-blind to the fact that lemon yellow and pale pink are not good combinations for winter clothes.†   (source)
  • But they're doing DNA tests to make sure.†   (source)
  • Not something expensive or impossible to find; not something encoded in DNA or hardwired into the circuits of their brains.†   (source)
  • Only Park's DNA had missed the memo.†   (source)
  • Something in your DNA that predisposed your immune system to fight off this particular disease.†   (source)
  • The game was in my DNA; I needed it as much as I needed air to breathe.†   (source)
  • Oh, wow, I never knew that frogs looked like this inside, he'd say, and then at home he studied the binding of cells into organisms through the philotic collation of DNA.†   (source)
  • Vaguely scientific-looking, they had a creepy feel of DNA sequences, or maybe spy transmissions in binary code.†   (source)
  • I was working on an article about genetically modified food -- food created by changing plant DNA in the laboratory.†   (source)
  • We also have fingerprint, retinal, and DNA scans, and have to step through special metal detectors.†   (source)
  • According to the scanner, the cruciform itself is composed of familiar tissue… the DNA is mine.†   (source)
  • Instead he took a DNA test.†   (source)
  • All good, the family's happy, they briefly entertain the idea that you're not a worthless use of their shared DNA.†   (source)
  • One was a tall boy of about thirteen, his skin burnished bronze and his cornrows woven like DNA helixes.†   (source)
  • So did Lagos think that the Asherah virus actually altered the DNA of brain cells?†   (source)
  • At the time Colorado was one of only six states with the capability to perform DNA tests on samples of E. coli 0157:H7.†   (source)
  • DNA, Josh murmured, staring at the forest sprouting and growing behind Flamel.†   (source)
  • As in every other instance, the killer had left no fingerprints and no DNA.†   (source)
  • "They've done DNA testing?"†   (source)
  • Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you.†   (source)
  • You couldn't rip out your own DNA, no matter how much you wished you could.†   (source)
  • This process is governed by a substance we call DNA.†   (source)
  • The bruises on her neck, as well as the DNA signature of his semen staining her body and clothing, would have nailed him.†   (source)
  • It's in their DNA.†   (source)
  • He taps the screen again, and the picture of my DNA disappears, so the screen is blank, just glass.†   (source)
  • You could share DNA with someone and still have nothing in common with them.†   (source)
  • I reminded him about DNA.†   (source)
  • The capsule contains one or more strands of DNA or RNA, which are long molecules that contain the software program for making a copy of the virus.†   (source)
  • " I thought harder and remembered: "a Junk DNA strand, which starts the whole Change."†   (source)
  • That in our DNA is stored genetic memories of when we were an evolving species and when you take the stuff the Indians of Brazil take you'll access your genetic library all the way back to cellular experience.†   (source)
  • Did they run DNA scans?†   (source)
  • The drums resembled cans of frozen Minute Maid enlarged by a crazed strain of DNA.†   (source)
  • On this day, the topic was human reproduction, so we were learning about how DNA works.†   (source)
  • For anyone in the military the chest of ribbons and/or medals was the DNA of a person's career.†   (source)
  • The DNA match on the hair made it all academic, anyway.†   (source)
  • But when that writer, the sole living author of my DNA, stood peering over my shoulder, it was flesh that became incarnate, flesh of my flesh, with a scent that I should have recognized as kin and a voice that was my inheritance.†   (source)
  • Like it or not, Mia Hall, you have a bit of grunge twined into your DNA, thanks to your family.†   (source)
  • The drugs, based on recombinant DNA research, weren't dose-restrictive-a fancy way of saying they could be taken in large quantities without side effects.†   (source)
  • No DNA.†   (source)
  • Like our inherent weakness for liquor, we had brawling in our DNA.†   (source)
  • Specializing in recombinant DNA research.†   (source)
  • The others had gotten photos and DNA of al-Kuwaiti.†   (source)
  • Or maybe every person left something behind her: fingerprints, DNA, secrets whispered near the rock face and recorded, hidden and kept safe until time ended.†   (source)
  • His alliance with King runs counter to every careful strand of his political DNA.†   (source)
  • "Ah, so it is DNA, is it?" asked Rasmussen, his eyes twinkling.†   (source)
  • The God who allowed me to feel His presence--whether by the warmth that filled my belly like hot chocolate on a cold afternoon, or that voice, whenever I found myself in the tempest of life's storms, telling me (even when I was told I was "nothing") that I was something, that I was His, and that even amid the desertion of the man who gave me his name and his DNA and little else, I might find in Him sustenance.†   (source)
  • That meant DNA evidence would probably be involved, and DNA almost always proved to be devastating to defendants.†   (source)
  • I guess it's in my DNA, and I just love being out there.†   (source)
  • Retroviruses actually referred to a particular class of virus, the HIV virus being the most well known, that were simple chunks of DNA or RNA.†   (source)
  • Maybe we all have the same story hiding inside, like a shared constant in our DNA.†   (source)
  • Mom was an anthropologist looking for ancient DNA.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's a clone grown on board the mothership from harvested DNA.†   (source)
  • Are you saying that alchemists knew about DNA? she asked.†   (source)
  • Snow Crash penetrates the walls of brain cells and goes to the nucleus where the DNA is stored.†   (source)
  • The DNA tests showed that at least ten people had been sickened by the same strain of the bug.†   (source)
  • Also, a necklace was found at the scene of the crime that had Wes's DNA on it.†   (source)
  • Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander's.†   (source)
  • DNA tests confirmed that he was not the father.†   (source)
  • Then are you working with the entire DNA strand?†   (source)
  • It is created in a laboratory by adding genes to corn DNA.†   (source)
  • In the torchlight, his cornrows seemed to twist into new DNA patterns.†   (source)
  • They also found that when they blocked the HPV DNA, cervical cancer cells stopped being cancerous.†   (source)
  • We also use the term DNA molecule, because DNA is in fact a complex molecule—or macro-molecule.†   (source)
  • How does the animal itself change so little when its DNA is mutating so rapidly?†   (source)
  • They don't know if they can get any DNA because it's such a small sample.†   (source)
  • Anyway, you see, I had your DNA sequenced.†   (source)
  • "Being cyborg can't change your DNA, can it?"†   (source)
  • And when it alters that DNA, what is the result?†   (source)
  • By the late 1990s, the evolution of DNA evidence had helped expose dozens of wrongful convictions.†   (source)
  • "Well, all that information came from her DNA," he said.†   (source)
  • You never explained that bit about the frog DNA.†   (source)
  • Long before complex molecules like DNA could be formed, the DNA molecular cells would be oxydized.†   (source)
  • "They got the DNA results yesterday," Scott says to me.†   (source)
  • Except that in this case, it was in a linguistic form rather than DNA.†   (source)
  • Bioengineered DNA was, weight for weight, the most valuable material in the world.†   (source)
  • By DNA we mean the chromosomes, or hereditary structures, that are found in all living cells.†   (source)
  • Christoph said, excited, "DNA is what's inside the cell!†   (source)
  • "Those codes," Wu said, "identify the various batch extractions of DNA.†   (source)
  • Inside each nucleus, if we could zoom in closer, you'd see a piece of DNA that looked like this."†   (source)
  • Wu went directly to the computer terminal and punched up the DNA logbooks.†   (source)
  • It was an inconceivable question—no one even knew what DNA was!†   (source)
  • To the trained eye, FISH can uncover detailed information about a person's DNA.†   (source)
  • Formerly it was thought that fossilization eliminated all DNA.†   (source)
  • She didn't want to hear that her mother's cancer was in that DNA too.†   (source)
  • Well, my guess is they're doing something with DNA," Barney said.†   (source)
  • And that had made Wu's DNA work purely empirical.†   (source)
  • "There's forty-six of those pieces of DNA in every human nucleus.†   (source)
  • We need the entire dinosaur DNA strand in order to clone.†   (source)
  • And both of those cells will have your mother's DNA in them."†   (source)
  • She'd heard many times that she'd inherited some of the DNA inside those cells from her mother.†   (source)
  • This is a typical example, because you see the DNA has an error, down here in line 1201.†   (source)
  • But, even so, the DNA molecule is too big.†   (source)
  • If enough DNA fragments were recovered, it might be possible to clone a living animal.†   (source)
  • By 1985, it seemed possible that quagga DNA might be reconstituted, and a new animal grown.†   (source)
  • Nobody could be analyzing a DNA molecule.†   (source)
  • Grant said, "My only question is, where'd they get the DNA?†   (source)
  • I'm talking about a legitimate source of their DNA.†   (source)
  • You couldn't look at a DNA sequence and predict behavior.†   (source)
  • It'll cut the DNA, using what are called restriction enzymes.†   (source)
  • As we discover the glitches in the DNA, Dr. Wu's labs have to make a new version.†   (source)
  • Ellie said, "You can't reproduce a real dinosaur, because you can't get real dinosaur DNA."†   (source)
  • The reason is that mammalian red cells have no nuclei, and thus no DNA in their red cells.†   (source)
  • After all, most DNA in living creatures was exactly the same.†   (source)
  • Sometimes we included avian DNA, from a variety of birds, and sometimes reptilian DNA.†   (source)
  • And rightly so: behavior was a second-order effect of DNA, like protein enfolding.†   (source)
  • The full DNA molecule contains three billion of these bases.†   (source)
  • Actually, dinosaur DNA is somewhat easier to extract by this process than mammalian DNA.†   (source)
  • Wu himself didn't often distinguish one kind of DNA from another.†   (source)
  • This innate conservatism of DNA emboldened Wu to use whatever DNA he wished.†   (source)
  • Using the Loy antibody extraction technique, we can sometimes get DNA directly from dinosaur bones.†   (source)
  • Much of the DNA we extract is fragmented or incomplete.†   (source)
  • Or maybe they're just analyzing DNA fragments, but they've got RAM-intensive algorithms.†   (source)
  • Of course, no dinosaur DNA was known to exist anywhere in the world.†   (source)
  • But you're probably wondering where our dinosaur DNA comes from.†   (source)
  • In making his dinosaurs, Wu had manipulated the DNA as a sculptor might clay or marble.†   (source)
  • DNA was an incredibly ancient substance.†   (source)
  • How we identify the DNA we have extracted.†   (source)
  • He still wasn't clear about why Grant thought frog DNA was important.†   (source)
  • Twin lines of hardening earth snaked toward me, crossing like a DNA helix.†   (source)
  • I surely doubt if we'll find much here to give us a DNA profile.†   (source)
  • We have fingerprints and possible DNA—but that analysis will take a little time.†   (source)
  • Wasn't there some sort of DNA test for gods' kids?†   (source)
  • DNA evidence is used routinely now to overturn capital punishment verdicts.†   (source)
  • They managed to scrape off enough to get type, DNA.†   (source)
  • Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what.†   (source)
  • "Two hairs they found on Tester's shirt match Angel's DNA."†   (source)
  • Mapping all one hundred thousand human genes and detailing the DNA alphabet of each.†   (source)
  • Since you were in the military your prints and DNA are on file," said Puller.†   (source)
  • It's like they just arbitrarily decided that one kind of DNA was bad and the other was good."†   (source)
  • These were plans of how to recombine the baby's DNA, graft avian DNA into her stem cells.†   (source)
  • We took two DNA samples and sets of photos so that we had identical sets.†   (source)
  • Well, that shell we call a virus is able to attach to a cell wall and squirt its viral DNA inside.†   (source)
  • Well, it just so happens that DNA is no respecter of centuries.†   (source)
  • "I heard that you're fascinated by DNA and genetics."†   (source)
  • "We've gotten to the point where we can tailor viruses to go after particular DNA sequences.†   (source)
  • Then I'll write up the request for DNA testing, you just have to sign—"†   (source)
  • "But as you've probably figured out, we're shutting down all of our recombinant-DNA experiments.†   (source)
  • We were created by scientists, whitecoats, who grafted avian DNA onto our human genes.†   (source)
  • While I continued shooting pictures, Walt took DNA samples.†   (source)
  • They didn't have a protein shell, just a strand of DNA.†   (source)
  • We did a super-fast rush on the DNA samples you sent.†   (source)
  • A virus that immunizes the host by altering its DNA against certain other viruses.†   (source)
  • Who had grafted avian DNA into us and why?†   (source)
  • The same DNA was found in abundant quantities on the remains of Svavelsjö MC's Göransson.†   (source)
  • Mara here had Panthera pardus genetic material grafted into her human DNA.†   (source)
  • Yeah, well, I thought, that's the whimsy of recombinant DNA.†   (source)
  • Try doing it with DNA that's not your own, not even from a mammal.†   (source)
  • We call it a DNA vaccine, but in reality it's actually an engineered virus.†   (source)
  • If you get bored in prison …. this is the latest thing on DNA research.†   (source)
  • We uploaded it to the FBI's Combined DNA Indexing System.†   (source)
  • But avian anatomy, plus recombinant-DNA theory, plus the picture of the Gasman…†   (source)
  • Fingerprints and DNA from Göransson's body.†   (source)
  • They consist basically of a shell that harbors a little bit of DNA.†   (source)
  • If we're real lucky we got some DNA leave-behind."†   (source)
  • Like graft other species' DNA into innocent infants."†   (source)
  • You mean besides seeing how well insane scientists could graft avion DNA into a human egg?†   (source)
  • It is a scent that is burned right into your DNA.†   (source)
  • "You know you're an experimental form of recombinant DNA.†   (source)
  • You were three years old, and they grafted DNA into you and they got a superEraser.†   (source)
  • Between a book about recombinant-DNA theory…and one on birds.†   (source)
  • We'll get prints and DNA samples from you.†   (source)
  • Must be all that girly sensitivity they wired into my DNA.†   (source)
  • At the door of the armory, we encounter a second round of identification checks--as if my DNA might have changed in the time it took to walk twenty yards down the hallway--and are finally allowed to enter the weapons collection.†   (source)
  • Another message gaining traction said, Not to rain on the parade, but I think there is evil in DNA, and I would worry about Annie.†   (source)
  • Your family genetic heritage, your specific DNA, your metabolic uniqueness, the quantum stuff that is going on at a subatomic level where only I am the always-present observer.†   (source)
  • The females choose to mate with these imposing alphas and are thereby inseminated with the best DNA around, which is passed on to the female's offspring—one of the most powerful phenomena in the adaptation and continuance of life.†   (source)
  • Why did they have to do DNA tests?†   (source)
  • "First let's get a swab of the inside of your cheek so we can rule out all of the DNA in the house that isn't yours.†   (source)
  • She could have chosen ex utero fertilization, a male lover with a transplant of Daddy's DNA, a clonal surrogate, a gene-spliced virgin birth, you name it… but, as she told me later, she opened her legs to tradition.†   (source)
  • When microorganisms are zapped with low levels of gamma rays or x-rays, they are not killed, but their DNA is disrupted, and they cannot reproduce.†   (source)
  • After his death, his descendants became increasingly arrogant and unstable (which I blamed on their mortal DNA; they certainly didn't get those qualities from me).†   (source)
  • He'd been at college less than two months but had already stepped directly into the world he wanted, analyzing the stunning symmetry of the DNA molecule as if he'd crawled inside a glistening cathedral of coiling atoms and climbed the winding, acidic rungs of the helix.†   (source)
  • You re telling me that you somehow woke the DNA in those floorboards and forced trees to grow, Josh said, choosing his words carefully.†   (source)
  • He'd been tracking your vitals, and crossreferencing with your DNA markers, he realized that the way you're eating, particularly nitrates, is elevating your propensity for cancer."†   (source)
  • And you know that DNA mutates?†   (source)
  • Even when DNA testing confirmed that male officers were the fathers of these children, very little was done about it.†   (source)
  • We have your blood samples, your DNA.†   (source)
  • What concerned her was not my premature demise-like me, she was far too self-centered to think of someone else at a time like that-nor even the fact that the death of my DNA would mark the end of a line of aristocrats which stretched back to the Mayflower;, no, what bothered Mother was that the family was going to die out in debt.†   (source)
  • If all monetary transactions, all health and DNA information, every piece of one's life, good or bad, when every word uttered flows through one channel?"†   (source)
  • I wonder whether evidence is being washed away, whether right at this moment vital clues are disappearing forever: smears of blood, footprints, DNA-loaded cigarette butts.†   (source)
  • I explained to Joe how disappointed we were that the State had destroyed the biological evidence that might have allowed us to prove he was innocent through DNA testing.†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid we can't do much until I've had a chance to analyze your blood samples and map your DNA sequencing.†   (source)
  • Anything from space technology—Stenton thought the Circle could design and build a far better reusable spacecraft—to what was rumored to be a plan to embed and make accessible massive amounts of data in human DNA.†   (source)
  • We still see new DNA viruses from time to time, but it seems that our bodies have developed a resistance to DNA viruses in general.†   (source)
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