Do we trust ourselves to be constrained to only socially accepted mapping the human genome?

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Recent advances in biotechnology, including mapping the genome of the malaria parasite, point to a possible malaria vaccine.

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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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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.

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