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From:Science (Vol. 294, Issue 5540) Peer-ReviewedYes, there is life after the announcement of the sequencing of the human genome. Back in February, we all spoke about the new doors to research that the sequence would open. Not even a year later, the truth of that...
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From:Science (Vol. 249, Issue 4969) Peer-ReviewedRanking the Risks Proves Contentious If the deliberations of EPA's Scientific Advisory Board committee are any indication, then ranking environmental risks, as William Reilly is proposing to do, will not be easy. Indeed,...
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From:Science (Vol. 254, Issue 5029) Peer-ReviewedAT A CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING ON THE Human Genome Project last summer, molecular biologist Craig Venter of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke dropped a bombshell whose repercussions are still...
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From:Science (Vol. 252, Issue 5010) Peer-ReviewedThe DNA sequence databases are chock full of errors, and investigators should clean up their act. That was the message delivered by molecular biologist Richard Roberts at a recent genome mapping and sequencing meeting...
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From:Science (Vol. 245, Issue 4925) Peer-ReviewedThe human genome, the set of chromosomes, is composed of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA), which is an elaborate code for building the molecules that are involved in the processes of life. Scientists throughout the country...
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From:Science (Vol. 246, Issue 4935) Peer-ReviewedEuropean explorers brought highly contagious diseases such as smallpox, measles, typhus and scarlet fever to the New World, to which Native Americans had never been exposed before. These new diseases proceeded to kill...
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From:Science (Vol. 256, Issue 5060) Peer-ReviewedAs the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development draws near, negotiators attempting to craft an international treaty to preserve the world's plant and animal species are struggling with a major obstacle:...
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From:Science (Vol. 240, Issue 4856) Peer-ReviewedChange in Polio Strategy? The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is urging the government to consider the biggest change in polio vaccine policy since the 1962 switch from the killed Salk to the live Sabin vaccine. The new...
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From:Science (Vol. 239, Issue 4839) Peer-ReviewedJ&J Finds a Place in the Sun Johnson & Johnson stock jumped over $8 in 2 days last week, to $79.78, following publication of a single study, involving 30 subjects, that suggests that a common and relatively...
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From:Science (Vol. 262, Issue 5130) Peer-ReviewedHuman Genome Project head Francis Collins must confront problems posed by funding shortfalls even as he reassesses the project's goals. Research on the genetic-linkage maps and on the physical mapping of genes has...
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From:Science (Vol. 295, Issue 5557) Peer-Reviewed"I could stay young and chipper and I'd lock it with a zipper, if I only had a heart," sang the Tin Man to his companions in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. There is hope yet for the Tin Man and for the many thousands...
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From:Science (Vol. 237) Peer-ReviewedDiscovering Microbes with a Taste for PCBs MICROBIAL ecologists and microbiologists are beginning to unearth a startling array of microorganisms with unexpected abilities to biodegrade some of the toughest and most...
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From:Science (Vol. 254, Issue 5034) Peer-ReviewedAFTER 3 YEARS OF FLOUNDERING, THE HUMAN Genome Organization (HUGO) seems finally to have found its role in life. At Science's Human Genome III meeting in San Diego in mid-October, HUGO president Walter Bodmer of the UK...