In the new study, the researchers, led by the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the president and fellows of Harvard College were co-plaintiffs in the case.
Lander, first author on the genome paper published by the government-funded Human Genome Project, is also an MIT professor and head of the Genome Center at the Whitehead Institute.
As another example, Venter points to Eric Lander , who heads the Genome Center at the Whitehead Institute (affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and is often seen as Venter's chief rival.
They enlisted the help of several scientists, including Eric Lander of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who went on to become a leading light in the effort to sequence the human genome.
In a different study released earlier this year, researcher Yaniv Erlich at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was also able to re-identify almost 50 people participating in a different genomic study.
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The problem of finding meaningful patterns among the huge quantities of genetic data that are provided by biochips was recently tackled by a team of researchers led by Todd Golub and Donna Slonim, of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute, which is paying for the Jones legal team, said Jones always alleged that "emotional distress, anxiety" resulted from her alleged encounter with Clinton.
Among the professors were Herbert W. Titus, a Vice-Presidential candidate of the far-right U.S. Taxpayers Party (now called the Constitution Party), and John Whitehead, who started the Rutherford Institute, a conservative legal-advocacy group.
John Whitehead, who runs the Rutherford Institute, the legal foundation bankrolling her lawsuit, complains that another group, the Paula Jones Legal Fund, is siphoning away fund-raising cash.
Whitehead, who took the case to raise his institute's profile, expects to lose money on Jones.
"The caution is that this is not going to explain even 1% of what these conserved regions are, " cautions David Bartel of MIT's Whitehead Institute, who has done much of the work on gene silencing.
Rudolf Jaenisch. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Science to Rudolph Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for improving our understanding of epigenetic regulation of gene expression, the biological mechanisms that affect how genetic information is variably expressed.
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But it is a big jump from the 20-person lab Kim runs at MIT's prestigious Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research to Merck, where he'll be in charge of more than 4, 500 research personnel.
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