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...England and the U.S.) are just two examples--are putting together databases of tissue samples to look for one-letter genetic differences. (These differences are formally known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs.) Fourteen drug companies and the philanthropic Wellcome Trust (not affiliated with Glaxo Wellcome) organized an SNPs consortium last year to begin building a publicly available SNP database. Both the Human Genome Project and Celera are currently sequencing the genomes of many different people, of both sexes and all sorts of ethnic backgrounds, to get a better sense of where the SNPs...
Venter's challenge jolted the lumbering Human Genome Project into a long-overdue overhaul. It cut back to four (now five) major centers. The Brits coughed up more money, and the consortium even began buying some of Hunkapiller's hot new machines. Collins admits that Venter "stirred...
Today those involved in the international consortium take pride in posting their new DNA sequences on the Web within 24 hours of assembly. Twelve years ago, no one could have imagined that nearly 500 million base pairs of assembled DNA would be posted in just one month...
...Ming L. Hsu '00 interned at the same non-profit civil rights organization in Washington, D.C. as Stephen H. Chen, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. Sharing interests in civil rights and public service, specifically in connection with Asian immigrants, the pair hit it off right away...
...industry is also banking heavily on another form of wireless--short-range-radio technology, the basis for its new Bluetooth protocol (named for a 10th century king who unified Denmark). Bluetooth, whose first stages will be rolled out this summer by a consortium of industry titans including Nokia, Ericsson, IBM and 3Com, will eventually let all your devices talk to each other and work together. Click on a name in your Bluetooth-enabled PDA, and it will find your cell phone (even if it's still in your briefcase) and place the call. If you have a Bluetooth-enabled earphone...