Beyond these direct implications, our experimental design has broad applications in clinical research and basic sciences: it serves as a simple, robust, low cost, easy-to-use tool to reconstruct living membranes, which are difficult to characterize in a conventional laboratory setup.
Not only does Venter say his invention will detect and decode DNA hiding in otherworldly soil or water samples — proving once and for all that we are not alone in the universe — it will beam that information back to Earth and allow scientists to reconstruct living copies in a biosafety facility.
These taphonomic factors, and more, act to limit our ability to reconstruct live herds from simple fragment counts.
The job of reconstructing lives belongs to the living, the memory keepers, which is what all of us became that day, willing or unwilling witnesses, unable to look away.
My fantasy was 'wow, reconstructing lives from previous times using tiny artifacts'".
The topic on Jan . 27for Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, is "Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Republic".
Doyle doesn't share, say, the queasily existential urgency of Blake Morrison reconstructing lives that need not have led to his own, or the dedication of Margaret Forster exploring the choices women made in a world that hobbled them.
She then wrote her first book, "Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution" (1997), with the support of fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center, and was asked by Robert Litwak, then the Wilson Center's director of the Division for International Studies, to start a Middle East program there, where she still works.
Although not a co-author in the Science papers, Bibi contributed to reconstructing the living environment of Ardi with taxonomic determination and comparative assessment of the common Aramis tragelaphine antelope.
While the IEDs are stopping civilians from returning home, they're also slowing down to reconstruct and rebuild lives.
An intense, emotionally involving piece about a trio of Tamil exiles trying to reconstruct their lives in France, "Dheepan" (to be distributed in the U.S. by IFC) underlines Audiard's gift for compelling moviemaking, for creating situations that make us fear for his characters as much as we fear for ourselves.
