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...trying to locate and decode a gene that governs production of a brain-cell protein. The work was agonizingly slow, and when he heard about a computerized machine that used lasers to automatically identify the chemical letters in DNA, he went out and bought a prototype--even though his NIH bosses wouldn...
...increasingly unhappy within NIH, with its bureaucracy, limited funds and intramural sniping (Watson, Collins' predecessor as head of the agency's genome project, had derided Venter for his work on machines that "could be run by monkeys"). So he and Claire Fraser, his wife and collaborator, left to found a private research firm, called the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), where in 1994 he upped the gene-sequencing ante to a new level. At the urging of medicine Nobelist Hamilton Smith, now a Celera scientist, Venter decided to use a technique called shotgunning to sequence the entire genome...
...searches and police had no warrants for them, they were unconstitutional. In January 1994 the advocates also filed a complaint with the National Institutes of Health, contending that because researchers published a paper on the results of the secret drug screens, the hospital had conducted improper human research. Later, NIH largely concurred, but the complaint had a more immediate effect. Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched a civil rights investigation based on the fact that nearly all those arrested were African American. The hospital soon reached an agreement with the department's Office for Civil...
...recognize that this will create additional cost and burden to institutions," Seto says. "The whole topic of regulatory burden is being addressed by NIH...
According to Mitchell, the PHS policy would give universities two years to develop new educational programs, whereas the University had to comply with the NIH's new guidelines within four months of their announcement in June...