Branscomb

Then one evening I heard for the first time of a place called Branscomb -- a village near the sea, over by Beer and Seaton, near the mouth of the Axe, and the account my old host gave me seemed so attractive that on the following day I set out to find it.

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On the other hand, there was Elbert Branscomb, and he was not invisible.

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All of which brings us back to the work of Elbert Branscomb and the other legions of scientists now working to understand what those molecular codes within us actually mean.

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Branscomb merrily went on to explain that all of the information that constitutes you and me is encoded in these four nucleotides that cling to a long string like pop beads.

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Our genes are wound into tight little cassettes of about one thousand genes each called chromosomes, says Dr. Branscomb.

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Gene therapy, the kind we discussed with Elbert Branscomb, can kick these efforts to another level because it is our DNA that seems to know when to command various cells to begin creating the right body parts in the right location at the right time.

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Branscomb merrily went on to explain that all of the information that constitutes you and me is encoded in these four nucleotides that cling to a long string like pop beads.

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Once they were assembled then they had to be linked in proper order to other short chains of the same size, says Branscomb.

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I ask, looking at Branscomb like an eight-year-old kid being told a whopper.

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“Being able to do this is a little bit like having a computer thatis both programmed and mechanically gifted enough to assemble itself out of the material around it,” says Branscomb.

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