The entire human genetic blueprint is in the process of collection, in the Human Genome Project.
The approval is great news for Human Genome Sciences, but lots of questions remain.
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TIGR's software is now up to dealing with the entire human genome in a single gulp.
We have a map of the human genome and new ways to produce renewable energy.
But the Human Genome Project , like the public library, is offering similar services for free.
It would certainly be nice if they had an exclusive human genome to sell.
Do we trust ourselves to be constrained to only socially accepted mapping the human genome?
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His killer app in Celera's assembly of the human genome was a technique called shotgun sequencing.
Mr. COLEMAN: Well, I think, the first thing is just acknowledging the human genome.
The next decade or two--finally, finally--will see abundant fruit from sequencing the human genome.
Intriguingly, changes to parts of the human genome may have made us prone to certain diseases.
With a complete human genome, including polymorphisms, on a chip, that would not be too hard.
At the core of this progress is the improving ability to sequence the human genome.
Doctors also presented results of competing drugs from Human Genome Sciences at the meeting.
Many of the same researchers who had mapped the human genome participated in the project.
Venter himself founded Human Genome Sciences (nasdaq: HGSI - news - people ).
New machines from IBM and EMC will replace the supercomputers used to sequence the human genome.
This was the case of Skowron and French physician, Yves Benhamou who worked at Human Genome Sciences.
Human Genome Sciences hopes to be able to sell the drug to other friendly nations as well.
Human Genome Sciences is developing a drug, Albuferon, a combination of the human protein albumin and interferon.
Kamionkowski compared the Planck map to the Human Genome Project in terms of its importance for cosmology.
Today, nutrigenomics scientifically shows how this is true, thanks to advances in the Human Genome Project.
Nor is it pure sophistry to think of these genes as part of an extended human genome.
Dr Bensimon also expects that molecular combing will come in handy for those mapping the human genome.
By contrast, the current estimate of the number of protein-coding genes in the human genome is 23, 000.
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Craig Ventner, the celebrated American scientist who first mapped the human genome, and explorer and environmentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau.
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Until now, the study of the human genome has been the field of esoteric science and outsized egos.
Craig Venter tied (some say beat) the mighty U.S. government in the race to sequence the human genome.
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