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Venter says he can do the job faster, cheaper and just as well. In May he announced a joint effort between his center, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and Perkins-Elmer Applied Biosystems that he says will decipher virtually the entire human genome in three years and cost less than $300 million...
...genome to hundreds of scientists, as the Genome Project does, Venter plans to use what he calls whole-genome shotgunning. Essentially, he will put the entire genome in a dicer that will chop it into millions of segments. These chunks will be fed into 230 newly developed Perkins-Elmer robotic machines that will identify and sequence the DNA code letters in each segment. The company claims that they are 10 times more efficient than current sequencing machines and allow human operators to input in 15 minutes what used to take 24 hours...
...stock prices) soaring. But it also presented the type of challenge that is particularly important in covering potential medical breakthroughs, especially ones in which "cure" and "cancer" appear in the same sentence. "We were seeing a disturbing disconnect between the headlines and the actual science," says science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, whose staff was already reporting a cover on cancer. "We thought we could separate the hope from the hype with some expert explaining...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...Elmer Street resident reported that her daughter, who is an MIT student, has been missing since...