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What really turned the tide was a February 1988 report by the prestigious ; National Research Council enthusiastically endorsing a project that would first map and interpret important regions of the genome, then -- as better technology became available -- proceed to reading the entire genetic message. Most of the remaining critics were silenced last fall when the NIH chose the respected Watson as project director. Still, some scientists remain wary of the project. Says David Botstein, a vice president at Genentech and a member of the Human Genome Advisory Committee: "We need to test its progress, regulate its growth and slap...
...have identified more than 1,000 markers, each about 10 million base pairs apart, on all the chromosomes. They have also been major contributors to the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms, set up in Paris by French Nobel laureate Jean Dausset to coordinate an international effort to map the genes. Of the 40 families whose cell lines reside in CEPH's major data banks, 27 have been provided by White's group...
...heart of Vienna. The locale was rich with inspiration: in 1815 the Congress of Vienna convened at the nearby chancellery to redraw the political face of Europe. Last week's gathering of 35 foreign ministers ushered in a modern-day reprise to redraft the Continent's military map. The talks, called CFE -- Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe -- are destined to be the arms-control battlefield of the 1990s...
...questions multiply as the science progresses. Thomas Murray, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University, acknowledges that some people are worried that a complete map of the genome might somehow "diminish our moral dignity . . . reduce us somehow to nothing more than the chemical constituents of our bodies." But knowing the entire sequence of DNA base pairs is like having the full musical notation of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, he says. "In no way does that knowledge diminish the grandeur of the symphony itself...
...COVER: Scientists have embarked on a bold $3 billion program to map genes and solve the mysteries of heredity...