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...publishing in scientific journals this week of the twin reports on the newly decoded human genome - one by Craig Venter and his company Celera, one by the publicly funded Human Genome Project - was the end of a long and unprecedented race to unscramble humanity's Book of Life, and supposedly the beginning of new golden age of medical miracles and biotech booms...
...accusing his biotech competition of selling access to genes that don't exist. His and the government consortium's tallies both came up with a total number of human genes between 26,000 to 40,000 (a rather fuzzy final answer in its own right), while Incyte Genomics, a Celera competitor, says it's got 120,000. Human Genome Sciences says it has identified 100,000 human genes. DoubleTwist pegs it at 65,000 to 100,000. Affymetrix sells DNA analysis chips with 60,000 genes...
...question and answer session after the hour-long talk, one audience member asked for Collins' thoughts on genetic research in the private sector, specifically mentioning Celera Genomics, a private company that has been engaged in a much-publicized competition with Collins' project to sequence and interpret the genome...
...Celera has obviously been a very important force to reckon with in the past few years," Collins said. He stressed that the perceived rivalry was not as intense as is has been portrayed...
...Celera has obviously been a very important force to reckon with in the past few years," Collins said. He stressed that the perceived rivalry was not as intense as is has been portrayed...