By the morning, the Audi's advantage in the wet had left Kristensen, Capello and McNish with a three-minute lead, which Villeneuve, Gene and Minassian tried to chip away for the rest of the race.

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The researchers were led to this idea when they scanned the stem-cell precursors of nerve cells with a device called a gene chip.

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The slim, ultra-light laptop that analysts including Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster are counting on for a Macworld debut will include a more heavy-duty, older chip from Intel, such as the Core 2 Duo.

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After months of e-mails, calls and in-person meetings, Van Tassell convinced Illumina that it was worth marketing a small gene chip that could keep track of 38, 000 tiny genetic differences in cows that his USDA researchers had discovered.

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