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That's a major milestone. Once scientists know how each human gene works and how it can malfunction, they can design sensitive diagnostic tests, find the genetic roots of diseases, customize medicines to each individual's unique genetic makeup--and maybe even replace defective genes with normal ones.
Venter, by contrast, took a more radical approach, smashing the DNA into millions of pieces, then feeding each into new high-speed robotic sequencers. By March 27, Celera had all of them read, though they will not be reassembled for three to six weeks. And lots more work remains to...
Even so, researchers have begun using genome segments made public by federal scientists. Researchers at Glaxo Wellcome, the British pharmaceutical giant, have identified groups of genes involved in Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, psoriasis and migraine, and are working on drugs to counteract them.
Of course, there will be teething troubles--literally. Or somebody might have forgotten to cut out the songbird's voice genes, so the first struth chirps like a sparrow. Or maybe the brain development did not quite hang together and the creature is born incapable of normal movement. As this...
And it just might prove much easier than I am implying. Who knows? Rusty old pseudogenes left over from the great sauropods may still be intact, hidden somewhere in the genes of a hummingbird.