Three decades of in vivo enhancer studies in mouse have laid the groundwork for the current understanding of mammalian enhancers, demonstrating the developmental and tissue-specific activity of enhancers and illuminating general features of enhancer evolution and function.
OBITUARIES An obituary on Thursday about Brad Corbett, the former owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, referred incorrectly to the arbitrator who struck down baseball's reserve clause, laying the groundwork for the current system of free agents.
Careful analysis of the meiotic products in fungi has provided early insights into the mechanism of HR (Holliday 1964), providing the groundwork for the current DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair model of HR (Szostak et al. 1983).
In 1988, Mr Hume began a series of contacts with the Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, laying the groundwork for the current peace process.
When Spider-Man was released in 2002, it almost singlehandedly laid the groundwork for the current superhero boom.
Though "Avatar" skewed the basis for comparisons, it also laid the groundwork for the current spurt, because it drew consumers toward the Blu-ray format, with Blu-ray sales of the movie reaching 11 million units globally.
As prime minister, he gave lower-income Thais a taste of a better life, including cheap loans that allowed people to buy pickups and mobile phones, which inadvertently or not laid the groundwork for the current political movement.
Many of the plans and aspirations presented at the meeting were familiar, not least from an April prequel that gathered some 60 neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University and laid the groundwork for the current gathering.
But his core beliefs and assumptions helped lay the groundwork for the current crisis.
The end of the 936 program and the closing of Roosevelt Roads were political decisions for which Congress and Puerto Rican officials each bear culpability and that together laid the groundwork for the current crisis.
