The question of how a single fertilized egg blossoms into a complete human infant is one of the magnificent puzzles of biology, and scientists are just beginning to pinpoint the key genes and molecules that direct the intricate unfolding.
The research is beginning to pinpoint traits that are no longer deemed just nasty and disruptive, but altogether psychopathic, experts suggest.
There's still research that needs to be done ("The science is a little grey here," says Diller), but already it is beginning to pinpoint some ways that stress affects the aging process.
In 2007, Mr. Hess said, the homeless department began to pinpoint the families that had stayed in the system the longest.
Once we can recognise these conventions, we can begin to pinpoint those features of a photograph that are distinctive.
Five decades later, biologists began to pinpoint the signals that these special parts of the limb bud send out.
Unfortunately, since the exact ratio of the circle's circumference to its diameter dwells at infinity, the Cray has not even begun to pinpoint pi.
Now scientists have begun to pinpoint the genetic changes that drove this remarkable transformation.
Organic solvents have long been suspects, but recent reports have begun to pinpoint specific agents, including chloroform and benzene.
Once the human and chimp genomes were deciphered about a decade ago, they realized they could now begin to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of our big brain, bipedalism, varied diet, and other traits that have made our species so successful.
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, making the announcement on stage at the re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas, stressed that developers really need to be careful who they are targeting when make these push notifications, and as the name implies, they can begin to pinpoint specific groups, who based on what they know about them would be the best group to receive these notifications.
