Word: sanger
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Blindsided by Venter's surprise announcement, leaders of the federal genome project--which is being carried out at university and government labs in the U.S., at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge, England, and at facilities in Germany and Japan--spent the summer rethinking their schedule. The result: an announcement last fall that they would finish up by 2003 rather than 2005, with a rough "working draft" of the genome to be published...
Today, four years later, a total of 20 genomes have been fully decoded, 10 of them at TIGR. In December scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and at the Sanger Centre passed a new milestone by decoding the first animal genome, that of a tiny roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans. At 97 million letters, C. elegans' genome is by far the most sophisticated ever sequenced. But if Venter's newly formed Celera (derived from the word celerity, which means swiftness) can pull it off, his proposal to shotgun the entire 3 billion-letter human genome in three years will make...
...Sanger strongly condemned charities and philanthropy helping poor, minority communities: "The most serious charge that can be brought against modern 'benevolence' is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents, and dependents." She also said, "Instead of increasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it [charity] tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant...
...Sanger also wrote, "The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism...
...that Sanger's Planned Parenthood now brags about how they "help" minorities by placing the vast majority of their clinics in minority schools and neighborhoods? Why isn't anyone suspicious...