There's a bit of a chemistry lesson in Perfumes (Turin is a biophysicist--Sanchez, a perfume critic, but no slouch in the science department either).

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That's the goal at a shop at Harvard, where Daniel Branton, a biophysicist, and his colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA--a letter at a time--through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.

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The biophysicist Hugh Herr of MIT, himself a double amputee and one of the scientists who tested Pistorius, suggests that athletes will simply have to use less advanced technology to keep them on par with able-bodied athletes.

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Recently, however, Carlos Bustamante, a biophysicist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, and his colleagues there and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have found a way to observe proteins as they search for their binding sites.

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That is the goal at a shop a few miles down the road from U.S. Genomics, at Harvard, where biophysicist Daniel Branton and colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA, one letter at a time, through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.

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