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But I've already explained this to you before. ie: can you tell me the information content of "GATTACA"
Bird Teeth 2008
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Case in point: tell me the information content of "GATTACA"
Bird Teeth 2008
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In the 1997 movie "GATTACA," only the genetically enhanced can hold good jobs.
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GATTACA: A man overcomes his physical and mental limitations by lying about his job qualifications.
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The device could be very small, so what you see in the movie GATTACA is not completely unreasonable.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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The slogan for Atlas Sports Genetics, which was not granted a certificate by the State of California, sounds like something lifted out of the movie GATTACA: Finding any great Olympic champion normally takes years to determine.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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These evaluations fall into the fuzzy area of hard data (many sequences -- GATTACA ... some 3 billion base pairs in each of us, times two for each genetic strand's pair) with relatively little, if anything at all, in the way of clear clinical connections.
Dr. Elaine Schattner: An Educated Medical Consumer: On Personal DNA Testing 2010
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In 1997, New Zealander Andrew Niccol wrote and directed the science-fiction movie GATTACA the title is spelled out from the four letters of DNA.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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These evaluations fall into the fuzzy area of hard data (many sequences -- GATTACA ... some 3 billion base pairs in each of us, times two for each genetic strand's pair) with relatively little, if anything at all, in the way of clear clinical connections.
Dr. Elaine Schattner: An Educated Medical Consumer: On Personal DNA Testing 2010
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The embryo selection process depicted in GATTACA is based on preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), a method developed in London in the 1980s that is becoming increasingly popular.7 In PGD, a single cell is teased apart from a three-day-old in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryo, the DNA amplified and screened for the presence of an abnormal gene, before the chosen embryos are implanted into the mother.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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