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  • Mary was left with two alcoholic, abusive men who shared the DNA of her two children but no husband or dad for her boys.†   (source)
  • Yeah, I thought I'd gotten away, but they found my DNA or something.†   (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 dawn.†   (source)
  • All good, the family's happy, they briefly entertain the idea that you're not a worthless use of their shared DNA.†   (source)
  • Science even presumes to rearrange our own DNA.†   (source)
  • You could share DNA with someone and still have nothing in common with them.†   (source)
  • But they're doing DNA tests to make sure.†   (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)
  • I was working on an article about genetically modified food — food created by changing plant DNA in the laboratory.†   (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)
  • Only Park's DNA had missed the memo.†   (source)
  • We also have fingerprint, retinal, and DNA scans, and have to step through special metal detectors.†   (source)
  • Vaguely scientific-looking, they had a creepy feel of DNA sequences, or maybe spy transmissions in binary code.†   (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)
  • Not something expensive or impossible to find; not something encoded in DNA or hardwired into the circuits of their brains.†   (source)
  • Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you.†   (source)
  • Twin lines of hardening earth snaked toward me, crossing like a DNA helix.†   (source)
  • According to the scanner, the cruciform itself is composed of familiar tissue...the DNA is mine.†   (source)
  • As in every other instance, the killer had left no fingerprints and no DNA.†   (source)
  • This process is governed by a substance we call DNA.†   (source)
  • So did Lagos think that the Asherah virus actually altered the DNA of brain cells?†   (source)
  • Instead he took a DNA test.†   (source)
  • DNA, Josh murmured, staring at the forest sprouting and growing behind Flamel.†   (source)
  • This is another way to read it, although I am told a normal brain will not grasp it: Ti morf sgniht wen nrael nac uoy dna tnorf ot kcab koob tnereffid a si ti.†   (source)
  • Did they run DNA scans?†   (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)
  • On this day, the topic was human reproduction, so we were learning about how DNA works.†   (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)
  • He taps the screen again, and the picture of my DNA disappears, so the screen is blank, just glass.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Like it or not, Mia Hall, you have a bit of grunge twined into your DNA, thanks to your family.†   (source)
  • I reminded him about DNA.†   (source)
  • You couldn't rip out your own DNA, no matter how much you wished you could.†   (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)
  • His alliance with King runs counter to every careful strand of his political DNA.†   (source)
  • I thought harder and remembered: "a Junk DNA strand, which starts the whole Change."†   (source)
  • The drums resembled cans of frozen Minute Maid enlarged by a crazed strain of DNA.†   (source)
  • The DNA match on the hair made it all academic, anyway.†   (source)
  • It's in their DNA.†   (source)
  • Like our inherent weakness for liquor, we had brawling in our DNA.†   (source)
  • The others had gotten photos and DNA of al-Kuwaiti.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "Ah, so it is DNA, is it?" asked Rasmussen, his eyes twinkling.†   (source)
  • For anyone in the military the chest of ribbons and/or medals was the DNA of a person's career.†   (source)
  • No DNA.†   (source)
  • Specializing in recombinant DNA research.†   (source)
  • I guess it's in my DNA, and I just love being out there.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • That meant DNA evidence would probably be involved, and DNA almost always proved to be devastating to defendants.†   (source)
  • You couldn't look at a DNA sequence and predict behavior.†   (source)
  • As we discover the glitches in the DNA, Dr. Wu's labs have to make a new version.†   (source)
  • It'll cut the DNA, using what are called restriction enzymes.†   (source)
  • DNA: Version Search Criteria: RANA (all, fragment len > 0)†   (source)
  • Nobody could be analyzing a DNA molecule.†   (source)
  • DNA was an incredibly ancient substance.†   (source)
  • "Well, my guess is they're doing something with DNA," Barney said.†   (source)
  • After all, most DNA in living creatures was exactly the same.†   (source)
  • You never explained that bit about the frog DNA.†   (source)
  • Wu went directly to the computer terminal and punched up the DNA logbooks.†   (source)
  • Actually, dinosaur DNA is somewhat easier to extract by this process than mammalian DNA.†   (source)
  • Ellie said, "You can't reproduce a real dinosaur, because you can't get real dinosaur DNA."†   (source)
  • Formerly it was thought that fossilization eliminated all DNA.†   (source)
  • "Here you see the actual structure of a small fragment of dinosaur DNA," Wu said.†   (source)
  • Or maybe they're just analyzing DNA fragments, but they've got RAM-intensive algorithms.†   (source)
  • Grant said, "My only question is, where'd they get the DNA?"†   (source)
  • He still wasn't clear about why Grant thought frog DNA was important.†   (source)
  • If enough DNA fragments were recovered, it might be possible to clone a living animal.†   (source)
  • Much of the DNA we extract is fragmented or incomplete.†   (source)
  • Then are you working with the entire DNA strand?†   (source)
  • Sometimes we included avian DNA, from a variety of birds, and sometimes reptilian DNA.†   (source)
  • In making his dinosaurs, Wu had manipulated the DNA as a sculptor might clay or marble.†   (source)
  • But, even so, the DNA molecule is too big.†   (source)
  • Wu himself didn't often distinguish one kind of DNA from another.†   (source)
  • But you're probably wondering where our dinosaur DNA comes from.†   (source)
  • And that had made Wu's DNA work purely empirical.†   (source)
  • Here is the same section of DNA, with the points of the restriction enzymes located.†   (source)
  • The full DNA molecule contains three billion of these bases.†   (source)
  • This innate conservatism of DNA emboldened Wu to use whatever DNA he wished.†   (source)
  • Dr. Wu explained that each table contained 150 eggs, and represented a new batch of DNA extractions.†   (source)
  • The result was clear: all breeding dinosaurs incorporated rana, or frog DNA.†   (source)
  • How we identify the DNA we have extracted.†   (source)
  • Of course, no dinosaur DNA was known to exist anywhere in the world.†   (source)
  • And here is the revised DNA strand, repaired by the computer.†   (source)
  • By 1985, it seemed possible that quagga DNA might be reconstituted, and a new animal grown.†   (source)
  • "Those codes," Wu said, "identify the various batch extractions of DNA.†   (source)
  • Using the Loy antibody extraction technique, we can sometimes get DNA directly from dinosaur bones.†   (source)
  • DNA Incorporating RANA Fragments Versions†   (source)
  • Bioengineered DNA was, weight for weight, the most valuable material in the world.†   (source)
  • We need the entire dinosaur DNA strand in order to clone.†   (source)
  • I'm talking about a legitimate source of their DNA.†   (source)
  • The reason is that mammalian red cells have no nuclei, and thus no DNA in their red cells.†   (source)
  • This is a typical example, because you see the DNA has an error, down here in line 1201.†   (source)
  • And rightly so: behavior was a second-order effect of DNA, like protein enfolding.†   (source)
  • He knew biologists were talking about the Human Genome Project, to analyze a complete human DNA strand.†   (source)
  • Of course, if a dinosaur was frozen, or preserved in a peat bog, or mummified in a desert environment, then its DNA might be recoverable.†   (source)
  • Now we are finding a fragment of DNA that overlaps the injury area, and will tell us what is missing.†   (source)
  • "That's a new batch of DNA," Wu said.†   (source)
  • Dodgson wanted more than bacterial DNA; he wanted frozen embryos, and he knew InGen guarded its embryos with the most elaborate security measures.†   (source)
  • The dark bars you see are restriction fragments—small sections of dinosaur DNA, broken by enzymes and then analyzed.†   (source)
  • But by grinding up large quantities of dinosaur bones it might be possible to extract fragments of DNA.†   (source)
  • So we can take an unknown piece of DNA and determine roughly, by computer, where it fits in the evolutionary sequence.†   (source)
  • DNA evolves over time, like everything else in an organism—hands or feet or any other physical attribute.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure you want to see this room," Ed Regis said, "but first, let's see how we obtain dinosaur DNA."†   (source)
  • We look only at the sections of the strand that differ from animal to animal, or from contemporary DNA.†   (source)
  • The problem was that all known dinosaurs were fossils, and the fossilization destroyed most DNA, replacing it with inorganic material.†   (source)
  • Life is too short, and DNA too long.†   (source)
  • If this insect has any foreign blood cells, we may be able to extract them, and obtain paleo-DNA, the DNA of an extinct creature.†   (source)
  • If we looked at a screen like this once a second, for eight hours a day, it'd still take more than two years to look at the entire DNA strand.†   (source)
  • It was Wu's deepest perception that the park was fundamentally sound, as he believed his paleo-DNA was fundamentally sound.†   (source)
  • "When you made your dinosaur DNA," Grant said, "you were working with fragmentary pieces, is that right?"†   (source)
  • If so, it would be the first creature brought back from extinction solely by reconstruction of its DNA.†   (source)
  • The DNA molecule was so old that its evolution had essentially finished more than two billion years ago.†   (source)
  • DNA was such a large molecule that each species required ten gigabytes of optical disk space to store details of all the iterations.†   (source)
  • In order to make a complete strand, were you ever required to include DNA fragments from other species?†   (source)
  • Nedry turned back to the group as Grant asked, "And once the computer has analyzed the DNA, how do you know what animal it encodes?"†   (source)
  • This amount of DNA probably contains instructions to make a single protein—say, a hormone or an enzyme.†   (source)
  • How come you asked them about frog DNA?†   (source)
  • My colleagues and I determined several years ago, that it was possible to clone the DNA of an extinct animal, and to grow it.†   (source)
  • When you compared the DNA of man and the DNA of a lowly bacterium, you found that only about 10 percent of the strands were different.†   (source)
  • The DNA of the dinosaurs was like old photographs that had been retouched, basically the same as the original but in some places repaired and clarified, and as a result—†   (source)
  • Tim would have liked to know more about the poisons, but Dr. Wu droned on about using unfertilized crocodile ova and replacing the DNA; and then Professor Grant asked some complicated questions.†   (source)
  • We can duplicate the DNA, but there is a lot of timing in development, and we don't know if everything is working unless we actually see an animal develop correctly.†   (source)
  • The company seemed obviously focused on animals; and they had hired researchers with an interest in the past—paleobiologists, DNA phylogeneticists, and so on.†   (source)
  • Whatever problems might arise in the DNA were essentially point-problems in the code, causing a specific problem in the phenotype: an enzyme that didn't switch on, or a protein that didn't fold.†   (source)
  • After Grant had asked about amphibian DNA, Wu had intended to go directly to his laboratory and check the computer records of the various DNA assemblies.†   (source)
  • Dr. Wu explained that their DNA work required the interruption of cellular mitosis at precise instants, and therefore they kept some of the most virulent poisons in the world.†   (source)
  • Of course, if we could obtain examples of their dinosaurs, we could reverse engineer them and make our own, with enough modifications in the DNA to evade their patents.†   (source)
  • "It's not frog DNA," Grant said.†   (source)
  • Grant was aware of serious speculation in laboratories in Berkeley, Tokyo, and London that it might eventually be possible to clone an extinct animal such as a dinosaur—if you could get some dinosaur DNA to work with.†   (source)
  • They were in another room, and from the deep green glow he realized it was the deserted DNA-extraction laboratory, the rows of stereo microscopes abandoned, the high-resolution screens showing frozen, giant black-and-white images of insects.†   (source)
  • And you have to realize that sometimes we think we have an animal correctly made—from the standpoint of the DNA, which is our basic work—and the animal grows for six months and then something untoward happens.†   (source)
  • How could he explain to Hammond about the reality of DNA dropouts, the patches, the gaps in the sequence that Wu had been obliged to fill in, making the best guesses he could, but still, making guesses.†   (source)
  • LEITZKE DNA SEARCH ALGORITHM†   (source)
  • It's amphibian DNA.†   (source)
  • Why frog DNA?†   (source)
  • Any amphibian DNA?†   (source)
  • A DNA molecule.†   (source)
  • Malcolm said, "Frog DNA?†   (source)
  • Specifically, frog DNA?†   (source)
  • Maybe we all have the same story hiding inside, like a shared constant in our DNA.†   (source)
  • Anyway, you see, I had your DNA sequenced.†   (source)
  • Are you saying that alchemists knew about DNA?†   (source)
  • Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander's†   (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)
  • Also, a necklace was found at the scene of the crime that had Wes's DNA on it.†   (source)
  • By DNA we mean the chromosomes, or hereditary structures, that are found in all living cells.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's a clone grown on board the mothership from harvested DNA.†   (source)
  • It is created in a laboratory by adding genes to corn DNA.†   (source)
  • And when it alters that DNA, what is the result?†   (source)
  • She didn't want to hear that her mother's cancer was in that DNA too.†   (source)
  • Being cyborg can't change your DNA, can it?†   (source)
  • Long before complex molecules like DNA could be formed, the DNA molecular cells would be oxydized.†   (source)
  • Snow Crash penetrates the walls of brain cells and goes to the nucleus where the DNA is stored.†   (source)
  • We also use the term DNA molecule, because DNA is in fact a complex molecule—or macro-molecule.†   (source)
  • Except that in this case, it was in a linguistic form rather than DNA.†   (source)
  • "Well, all that information came from her DNA," he said.†   (source)
  • There's forty-six of those pieces of DNA in every human nucleus.†   (source)
  • And both of those cells will have your mother's DNA in them.†   (source)
  • To the trained eye, FISH can uncover detailed information about a person's DNA.†   (source)
  • She'd heard many times that she'd inherited some of the DNA inside those cells from her mother.†   (source)
  • It was an inconceivable question—no one even knew what DNA was!†   (source)
  • Christoph said, excited, "DNA is what's inside the cell!†   (source)
  • Inside each nucleus, if we could zoom in closer, you'd see a piece of DNA that looked like this.†   (source)
  • Wasn't there some sort of DNA test for gods' kids?†   (source)
  • Mom was an anthropologist looking for ancient DNA.†   (source)
  • They managed to scrape off enough to get type, DNA.†   (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)
  • Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what.†   (source)
  • DNA evidence is used routinely now to overturn capital punishment verdicts.†   (source)
  • You mean besides seeing how well insane scientists could graft avion DNA into a human egg?†   (source)
  • If you get bored in prison ....this is the latest thing on DNA research.†   (source)
  • These were plans of how to recombine the baby's DNA, graft avian DNA into her stem cells.†   (source)
  • Since you were in the military your prints and DNA are on file," said Puller.†   (source)
  • They consist basically of a shell that harbors a little bit of DNA.†   (source)
  • Well, it just so happens that DNA is no respecter of centuries.†   (source)
  • The DNA tests showed that at least ten people had been sickened by the same strain of the bug.†   (source)
  • Like graft other species' DNA into innocent infants.†   (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)
  • Then I'll write up the request for DNA testing, you just have to sign—†   (source)
  • While I continued shooting pictures, Walt took DNA samples.†   (source)
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