Dr. Francis Collins, arguably the nation's leading geneticist, is working on a book that promises "stunning new revelations about why we get sick, what it means to be healthy and more
Fortune: Genomes 'R' Usupdated: Thu Aug 28 2008 07:26:00
It took the Human Genome Project $3 billion and 13 years to map the first genome and reduce it to a chemical code six billion letters long. Today, with faster computers and improved techniques, a research laboratory can sequence your DNA in about six weeks at a cost of $100,000 to $300,000.
THIS IS MODERN MEDICINE'S MILLION-DOLLAR question: Does a given human's DNA--yours, for instance--contain a mutation that researchers know or suspect is related to disease? One of many firms settin...
As science celebrates the decoding of the human genome, the man whose invention made it all possible isn't cheering. At the moment, in fact, he's tapping intently on a laptop in his office, trying ...
At one time, biology was a science of test tubes and petri dishes. Now it is rapidly becoming a form of data crunching. Genomics researchers are already awash in digital descriptions of DNA and pro...
Fortune: Genetic Effectsupdated: Mon May 27 2002 00:01:00
In 1999, French scientists removed bone marrow from four boys suffering a deadly immune-system disorder, treated it with a genetically engineered virus, and returned the marrow to the boys' bodies....
© 2013 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
|