Word: consortium
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...separate reports by rival organizations--the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium and Celera Genomics-- were released after many months of intense investigation and are already overturning some longstanding beliefs about human biology...
...consortium, a public organization funded in the United States by the National Institutes of Health, will publish its results in the journal Nature on Thursday, while Celera Genomics, a privately funded company, will publish its results in Friday's edition of the journal Science...
...donations raised this week will be sent to Kutch Navnirman Abhiyan, a consortium of 14 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that was founded in May 1998 in response to a devastating cyclone that hit Kutch, Gujarat...
...scientists announced that they had sequenced the 3.1 billion pairs of biochemical "letters" of human DNA, the coded instructions for building and operating a fully functional human. Fierce rivalry between J. Craig Venter, the prickly head of a private genetics company, and Dr. Francis Collins, leader of a government consortium, fueled the lightning-fast pace...
That Collins has in large measure succeeded ranks as no small accomplishment, given the unwieldy nature of the international consortium with which he has had to deal since 1993. In order to respond to Venter's challenge, for example, Collins and his allies had to persuade scientists from six countries and multiple government agencies and university-based laboratories to cooperate rather than compete. The result of those efforts--a first draft of the book of man--was to appear with Venter's work in the journal Science until it was pulled and sent to Nature in a last-minute dispute...