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SPEEDING UP THE GENE POOL INVENTORS: GAVIN MACBEATH AND STUART SCHREIBER Sequencing of the human genome may be the greatest breakthrough in human history, but it is just a beginning. To get to the good stuff, like gene therapy and hyperefficient drugs, scientists need to analyze the chemistry of 50,000-100,000 proteins encoded by our genes. But proteins are notoriously complex and finicky (a little heat or mishandling, and they break down like Scarlett O'Hara) and need to be treated gingerly in a process that was expected to take decades. Harvard biochemists MacBeath and Schreiber have found...
According to Gavin MacBeath, a fellow at the Center for Genomics Research, each sequencing center would have "150 of these half million sequencing machines that we have a couple...
According to MacBeath, the Center currently has parts of 40,000 of the estimated 100,000 to 140,000 human genes stored in their freezer...
Currently, MacBeath is the only fellow, but two more are slated to be added by the end of this year, and another two by the end of the following year. The Institute's new home in the Life Sciences Building will have room for ten fellows...
...very exciting stuff," said MacBeath. "Philosophically this is the first time in human history where we have the complete set of info that encodes a human being...