But new, patented tests created with information gleaned from genome mapping have injected new life and higher margins (near 75%) into the business.
Whole genome mapping may yield more of these personalised therapies.
Three of the more significant new positions the M100 took last week were in biotech, where they bought genome mapping company Human Genome Sciences, drug developer Biogen Idec and vaccine developer ID Biomedical.
Recent advances in biotechnology, including mapping the genome of the malaria parasite, point to a possible malaria vaccine.
It has been said, again and again, that mapping the genome was just the beginning of figuring out how genes work.
Do we trust ourselves to be constrained to only socially accepted mapping the human genome?
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Dr Bensimon also expects that molecular combing will come in handy for those mapping the human genome.
But the new trials by Millennium and Abbott stand as a valuable test of whether the money poured into genomics firms--not to mention the billions of dollars spent mapping the human genome--was really well spent.
After years of research and the expenditure of billions of dollars, universities, research institutions and private companies succeeded about 10 years ago in mapping the human genome, showing the long string of genetic materials that's found in all cells.
Eric Lander , who played a pivotal role in mapping the human genome and now heads the Broad Institute, says the gift is about "really empowering a generation of young scientists to think specifically about getting to the heart of diseases" including cancer, metabolic diseases like diabetes, and infection.
Iowa State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Ames Laboratory, in partnership with a network of universities and industrial partners, will be initiating a series of workshops called "Mapping the Materials Genome" focused on identifying the critical research challenges and establishing the experimental and computational techniques by which the "Materials Genome" can in fact be realized.
Better to model yourself on Cohen and seek your fortune in what he predicts are the growth areas of the 21st century: the electronic microchip, the cellular phone and Internet, new discoveries in DNA and the mapping of the human genome.
Collins, the force behind the mapping of the human genome and now the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, accused the firm of hijacking drug research with flimsy patents covering huge strips of so-called junk DNA, biological bits once thought insignificant but now central to the work of disease hunters.
The mapping of the entire human genome will facilitate this process.
Researchers at the Allen Institute For Brain Science have completed their four year task of mapping the brain based on all known parts of the genome.
Unlike the effort to decode the human genome, or the project to put a man on the moon, the mapping of the human brain is a fuzzy endeavor, with no obvious milestones along the way.
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