Bill Browder went from being Russia's largest foreign investor to being blacklisted from that country. The CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, Browder was once a supporter of President Putin - that is until he was expelled from Russia in 2005 after being considered a threat to national security..
A contig is a set of overlapping DNA segments that together represent a consensus region of DNA. In bottom-up sequencing projects, a contig refers to overlapping sequence data; in top-down sequencing projects, contig refers to the overlapping clones that form a physical map of the genome that is used to guide sequencing and assembly.
lag noun [C/U]. âº a âdelay in the âperiod of âtime in which âevents âhappen: [C] There is often a lag between âbecoming âinfected and the first âsigns of the âillness. (Definition of lag from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press).