The government has recently announced that up to 100, 000 patients with cancer and rare diseases in England are to have their entire genetic code sequenced to aid research.
Here, we ask Nobel laureate James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and one of the first people to have his genome sequenced, to pick his favorite gene.
Wherever the stock market may journey, U.S. output of silicon logic gates, lines of software code, terabits of Web traffic and base pairs of genes sequenced is going to keep right on growing.
Howard Jacob, the geneticist at the Medical College of Wisconsin who sequenced Nicholas, says his hospital has started a program by which two physicians can nominate patients to be sequenced.
So only a small part of the genome has to be sequenced directly.
However, The Journal of Clinical Oncology ( read here) recommends that if the drugs are to be sequenced, Provenge should be given first.
He is reported to have told the New York Times that it would have been more valuable for the National Institutes of Health to have sequenced a genome of a different species, "instead of duplicating efforts again and wasting public money".
We just needed to get them sequenced correctly and use that as an opportunity.
One of my first steps was to arrange for a sample of his tumor to be genetically sequenced by the Cambridge, Mass.
To investigate, scientists sequenced the genomes of 800 malaria-causing parasites (Plasmodium falciparum) collected from around the world.
The public announcements, dignitary comments, and festivities leading up to and including the sequenced lighting of the rope light strands by the eight Sault Ste.
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Billionaire Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, and CNN talk show host Larry King are among those who have signed on to have their genes sequenced as part of the Archon X Prize.
Billionaire Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), and CNN talk show host Larry King are among those who have signed on to have their genes sequenced as part of the Archon X Prize.
In a matter of a few years (if not months), you and I will be able to get our complete genome sequenced for the cost of a night out at a decent restaurant.
By having his entire genome sequenced, Craig Venter has done something likely to get him into the textbooks--again.
This first shreds a genome into pieces small enough for sequencing machines to handle, then stitches the sequenced pieces back together by matching the overlaps using a computer.
Well, perhaps if you are one of the team of international scientists who successfully sequenced the DNA of a 50, 000 to 80, 000 year-old Siberian girl, some 31 times over in fact.
The more accurate map of his genome, published Tuesday in The Public Library of Science, an online journal, is most important because it is going to help scientists make many more such maps--and because it opens the door to people being willing to have their genome's sequenced.
Using automated sequencing machines from Perkin-Elmer, DeCode sequenced the DNA from the healthy and the sick to locate the gene.
At the time the genome was being sequenced, and researchers promised it would quickly lead to huge numbers of breakthrough drugs.
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The genome has been sequenced several times over, and we have the technology to synthesize parts of the virus if we really need it for vaccine design.
Church, who has made a career out of perfecting the speed with which genes can be sequenced, was emphatic about the need for the Federal government to regulate and monitor the new field.
Just as Amazon makes security of the data it stores a priority, Illumina is emphasizing that the genomic data will be encrypted and will not be linked to the identity of the person whose genome has been sequenced.
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But Dr Craig Venter, the president of Celera, said in a newspaper interview on Friday that his company had already sequenced the genomes of three different strains of mice, two of them to 90% completion, and was perplexed by the new public initiative.
Once genes could be sequenced, some argued, they might also be patented by whomever was lucky enough to do it first.
In recent years, scientists have sequenced the genetic code of a wide array of organisms, ranging from mice, humans and fish to common bacterial pathogens and plants like rice and corn.
Since all the DNA in the human body was first sequenced in 2000, some 4, 000 diseases with a known genetic basis have been identified, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Finally, the notion of deliberately sequenced conflicts was entirely eliminated in favor of the requirement that U.S. forces be capable of responding to a second regional aggression while already engaged in a major theater conflict or substantial stability operation.
In one early example of how this may work, Marco Marra, a researcher at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, last year sequenced the genes from a tumor that had spread from an 80-year-old patient's tongue to his lungs.
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