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...priority for the world's wildlife researchers as an ever growing number of species become imperiled each year. Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the San Diego Zoo's Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, is the driving force behind a 25-year effort to assemble a bank of frozen dna, eggs and sperm from endangered species. Under his direction, the frozen zoo now has living cells from 5,400 animals spanning more than 400 species and subspecies, cultured and frozen in liquid nitrogen...
...that's about to change. With the mapping of the genome--the twisted double strand of DNA that carries the instructions for making every cell in the human body--the process by which new drugs are developed is being turned upside down. Trial and error, which is how medicines have been discovered for the past 100 years (and for millenniums before that), is yielding to drugs by design. Increasingly scientists, armed with blueprints for our genes, can identify the individual molecules that make us susceptible to a particular disease. With that information--and some high-speed silicon-age machinery--they...
...DNA Want to join the genetic revolution?Fill out a questionnaire and provide a blood sample and you can donate your DNA for genetic-disease research at www.DNA.com. Run by DNA Sciences, the site has drawn 4,500 volunteers so far and is hoping for a total of 100,000 samples...
...Genome Five years ahead of schedule, 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...
...great year for cracking codes, man's and nature's alike. The scientific high point of the year--if not of all intellectual history--was the decoding of human DNA, announced with much fanfare at the White House in late June by two scientists, J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins, whose agreement to share the credit and a podium was all the more remarkable because they can hardly stand to breathe the same air. Passions were no less intense on the Internet, where the music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed...