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Researchers Sequence the Maize (Corn) Genome

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Thin ribbons connect duplicate regions in the maize genome, thereby revealing large related segments and reflecting the maize genome’s complicated structure. The new maize sequence was produced by a consortium of researchers that was led by the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University in St. New sequence of maize genome.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. and Toronto, Ont., Pake, a longtime friend, to run it. Local area network.

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