Just a handful of recently selected genes have previously been identified, like those that confer resistance to malaria or the ability to digest lactose in adulthood, an adaptation common in Northern Europeans whose ancestors thrived on cattle milk.
This year's seminar began on Tuesday with a faculty concert at the Americas Society on Park Avenue that included several surprises, not least a handful of recently discovered works by the early-20th-century Paraguayan guitarist-composer Agustín Barrios, the centerpiece of a short set by Tony Morris.
Each Friday for the foreseeable future, we'll be showcasing a handful of recently launched applications from the iPhone App Store.
Jennifer Willoughby, a doctoral student in bioarchaeology at Western University in London, Canada, convinced a cancer lab to send her a handful of recently deceased mice, most with tumors and a few without.
Much like Bain Consulting, McKinsey and the armies of consultants employed by the big accounting firms, which sprung up initially to serve the needs of the financial service firms and industrial giants, a handful of recently formed research and advisory firms have jumped on the technology wave.
The NHTSA website lists a handful of recently filed suspension-related complaints, all submitted anonymously with links to Model S cars in salvage yards across the country.
Soon wrangler Jennifer McDonald was leading us across meadows, up slopes, through thick pine groves, across ravines and past a handful of recently constructed custom homes.
There is a handful of recently identified and sequenced Myoviridae bacteriophages, very distant members of the T4-like superfamily, that all encode a bona fide fmdB gene of 81 amino acids in length.
Brandon will join a handful of other recently hired athletic directors who have taken unorthodox paths.
Only five are under construction; they will just barely offset a handful that closed recently.
She confirmed that the company had hired a handful of reporters recently after the Chicago News Cooperative suspended operations in February.
