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.
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.
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.
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.
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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