An international scientific research project with the goal of determining and decoding the total sequence of human DNA. It was declared complete in 2003.
In an unusual display of solidarity, the heads of the private and public projects aiming to decipher the entire human genome held an impromptu joint press briefing last week. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics and Dr Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, shook hands and complimented each...
Professor Allan Bradley will replace John Sulston as head of the Sanger Centre this October, the Wellcome Trust announced last week. The Cambridgeshire laboratories have been responsible for a third of the worldwide project to sequence the entire human genome, now entering its final phase. Bradley's appointment will see a...
Eric Lander, director of the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said last week that the genetic modification (or germline gene therapy) of humans should be banned for now, with the understanding that 'we would still be able to come back to the issue later'. Speaking about the...
The winner of this year's Aventis Prize for Science Books - formerly the Rhone-Poulenc Prize - is to be announced at the Science Museum, London on 23 May. The short list of six books includes 'Genome' by Matt Ridley: a guide to the Human Genome Project in 23 chapters (one for each...
Look at media reports on the effort to sequence the entire human genome and you're bound to see one word time and time again: 'race'. An editorial in this week's Nature worries that the race theme is getting out of control. The editorial notes that the quest to sequence the...
An international consortium has finished reading the entire genetic code of chromosome 21, the smallest human chromosome. It is the second human chromosome to be completely decoded, following the deciphering of chromosome 22 last December. The scientists, from Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, the USA and the UK, will publish their...
A US company claims to have completed the first large-scale computer analysis of the human genetic code, using raw data generated by the publicly-funded Human Genome Project. DoubleTwist, based in Oakland, California, say they have located about 65,000 genes, and identified a further 40,000 potential genes. The firm carried out...
The Human Genome Project is nearly finished and will soon change all our lives overnight. Or so you might think, given the regular media coverage biology's biggest project receives. Last week, the reports were of biotech firm Celera Genomics, lambasted by their public sector rivals for claiming they had 'nearly...
The announcement by biotech company Celera Genomics that it has 'finished' sequencing the human genome has been disputed by scientists from the publicly-funded Human Genome Project. They have questioned the Celera's claims that it will assemble the complete sequence within six weeks. Speaking at the Human Genome Mapping 2000 meeting...
US firm Celera Genomics claimed last week that it has finished sequencing 99 per cent of the human genome, and is now putting the information together in a meaningful order. The announcement follows a statement last week from the publicly-funded Human Genome Project, which aims to publish a rough draft...
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