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Geneticists worldwide took part in a celebration last week that was sure to rival any millennium bash, complete with the pop of the champagne, toasts to the past and the proclamation of resolutions for the coming years. To outsiders, it may have seemed that the labcoat-clad revelers had somehow...
In light of the incredible possibility that the project holds, there is every reason to press onward. As for the danger of posting the sequences on the Web, such a risk is infinitely preferable to the danger of keeping such vital information as some sort of government secret.
But although we may be opening a Pandora's Box of sorts by attempting to determine the exact nature of what makes each individual a human, there are many ways in which humanity can benefit from the project. On Chromosome 22 alone, scientists have identified more than 20 genes that...
"She kind of thought, 'Hey, there's some education to be had here,' and TAP paid for it," Fernald says.
And more than a little worried. While this is hardly the first or even the most expensive ship ever to be lost around the Red Planet (that would be the billion-dollar Mars Observer, lost en route in 1993 and now presumably doing its observing outside the Oort cloud), NASA...