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Rudolf Steiner

...t. It could not be "implemented" like some utopian program in a day, a decade, or even a century. It was a complex open process that began thousands of years ago and that he thought was likely to continue for thousands more. Apart from his central book on social questions, Toward Social Renewal , there ...

Polymerase chain reaction

...ratures given in this example are taken from a PCR program that was successfully used on a 250 bp fragment of the C-terminus of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF). The reaction mixture consists of : 1.0 l DNA template (100 ng/l) 2.5 l of primer, 1.25 l per primer (100 ng/l) 1.0 l Pfu-Polymerase...

Magnetic resonance imaging

...at made this feasible. In 2001 , the Lemelson-MIT program bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award on Dr Damadian as "the man who invented the MRI scanner". It is still not clear if Damadian's method of detecting cancer is working, and it is not used in modern MRI imaging and diagnostics. His description of...

Extinction

...e mammoth and thylacine . In order for such a program to succeed, a sufficient number of individuals would need to be cloned (in the case of sexually reproducing organisms) to create a viable population size. The cloning of an extinct species has not yet been attempted, due to technological limitations...

Eugenics

...y sterilized 62,000 "unfits" as part of a eugenics program over a forty year period. Similar incidents occurred in Canada , Australia , Norway , Finland , Estonia , Switzerland and Iceland for people the government declared to be mentally deficient. Singapore practiced a limited form of "positive"...

Digital organism

...igital organism is a self-replicating computer program that mutates and evolves . Digital organisms...ity of a program. The first to solve the issue of program brittleness was Tom Ray with his Tierra system. Tierra was similar to core world. However, Ray m...

Bioinformatics

...istribute shared programming tools and objects (as program modules) that make bioinformatics easier. See also biologically-inspired computing morphometrics metabolic network Important publications in bioinformatics Related fields applied mathematics — biology — comp...

BLAST

...nce matching. The BLAST algorithm and a computer program that implements it were developed by Stephen Alt...AST is the Smith Waterman. Program The BLAST program can either be downloaded and run as a command-line utility "blastall" or accessed for free over the ...

Biotechnology

...lgene : "Flavr Savr" tomato 1999 Biotechnology program started at North Montgomery County Technical Career Center in Pennsylavania. 2000 Completion of the Human Genome Project Biotechnology firms The top 10 publicly-traded biotechnology companies, ranked by 2003 sales, are: Amgen Genente...

Bioinformatics

...istribute shared programming tools and objects (as program modules) that make bioinformatics easier. See also biologically-inspired computing morphometrics metabolic network Important publications in bioinformatics Related fields applied mathematics — biology — comp...

Artificial life

...ly the position of Tom Ray who declared that his program Tierra was not simulating life in a computer, bu... II desktop computer. He entered Burks' graduate program at the Logic of Computers Group in 1982, at the age of 33, and helped to found a new discipline. La...