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It´s Time for Clockless Chips

October 2001

Megahertz, shmegahertz. A few iconoclasts are building computer chips that dispense with the traditional clock. But they face big barriers in bringing their idea into the mainstream.

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Features

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    The Proteomics Payoff

    Now that the human genome project is done, proteins are set to displace genes as the new darlings of drug discovery. But are biologists up to the task?
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    Speeding Drug Discovery

    It takes years and millions to get a new drug to market. New techniques might burrow through the mountain of genome data and break the bottleneck.
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    Consulting Biotech’s Oracle

    The CEO of Human Genome Sciences, Bill Haseltine, has created a powerful new tool that he just knows will revolutionize the discovery of new medicines.
  • The Defense Department agency that midwifed the Internet has a uniquely effective strategy to spur innovation-and plenty of hot new technologies in its pipeline.
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    Bankrolling the Future

    Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and Nobelist Walter Gilbert, now both venture capitalists, meet to pick the most significant emerging technologies in IT and biotech.

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