The order of the chemical units (bases) along a piece of DNA or RNA.
Craig Venter, of the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland USA, is joint winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Science this year, along with biologist Professor Edward Wilson, of Harvard University. Venter has developed new, rapid techniques for identifying genes and sequencing entire genomes. Once part of...
A ten year international collaboration led by three British cancer charities is homing in on a gene involved in testicular cancer, known as TGCT1. Testicular germ-cell cancer is the commonest cancer among young men in Western Europe and its incidence is on the increase worldwide. Men who inherit the mutant...
This week's announcement by Celera Genomics that it has DNA sequences totalling more than 90 percent of the genome in its database has certainly increased the value of Celera on the stock market. However, it has also brought the public/private genomics debate back to life. Celera officials openly admit...
Those who so often worry that the British public feel nothing but animosity towards science may be breathing a huge sigh of relief this week. News last week that one of the 23 chromosomes in the human genome had been entirely mapped was met with almost universal good feeling. Those...
An international team of researchers has passed a scientific milestone by deciphering, for the first time, the complete genetic code of a human chromosome. Reporting in last week's Nature, researchers from the Wellcome Trust funded Sanger Centre in Cambridge, Keio University in Japan and various US laboratories announced their success...
A US biotechnology company is attempting to patent parts of the human genome in order to profit from its research before Human Genome Project - an alliance of government and charity-funded labs - move to ensure that sequenced genetic codes are made publicly and freely available on the Internet. The Maryland-based Celera...
According to a leading private sector participant in the US genome sequencing effort, there may be more than 140,000 genes in the human genome - almost twice conventional estimates. Randall Scott, president and chief scientific officer of the California-based Incyte Pharmaceuticals, made this suggestion during his presentation to the annual International...
Tony Blair and Bill Clinton are working to come up with an Anglo-American agreement to prevent the patenting of the human genetic code. Initiated by Mr Blair, the deal aims to ensure the rapid worldwide access of raw gene sequence data. The move has been welcomed by the Wellcome Trust...
A gene for dyslexia has been mapped by an international team of researchers based in Norway, Belgium and the US. Reporting in the Journal of Medical Genetics, the researchers emphasise that the discovery indicates that dyslexia manifests differently among those who inherit the gene for it. The new gene - DYX3...
The Wellcome Trust is to fund 67% of a two year, $45m (£30m), international project to define some 300,000 DNA sequence variations in the human genome. The remaining funds come from a consortium of ten of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, who have also agreed to put the newly discovered...
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