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If that purchase became a symbol of Venter's disdain for authority, the new technique he developed for finding genes with it demonstrated his brilliance. By focusing on those bits of DNA that were actually doing something--as opposed to the long strings that had no obvious function--he was...
Some of the discoveries that will flow from the genome sequence (and from the necessary next steps of identifying its genes and specifying their functions) are more or less predictable. By noting which genes are inactive--or inappropriately active--in people with cancer, heart disease and dozens of other illnesses...
But that's just the start. By looking at the genome as a whole, scientists can begin addressing broader questions about who we are and how we got here. They're learning, for example, that humans have far fewer genes than the 100,000 to 140,000 scientists believed as...
The genome seems to carry amazingly detailed evidence of our evolutionary history, including traces of viruses that long ago invaded our DNA and became a permanent part of us. Says Smith: "We hope over the years to get a clear picture of how our genome was put together and even...
Although the details will take decades to unravel, the genetic evidence is coming in at a remarkable pace. In the months since Venter and Collins stood together at the White House last June, Celera scientists have rushed ahead and sequenced the genome of the mouse. Astonishingly, mouse and human genomes...