Genome Research
In 1990, an international consortium of researchers, lead by the United States National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy, set out to understand human beings at a molecular level. Scientific advancement in the previous two decades made it possible to sequence the DNA of an organism and thus study its genome, the chemical code that distinguishes one organism from another. Such research holds the key to understanding biology at its most fundamental level. In April 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed.
SCIENTISTS SPEAKING ON GENOME RESEARCH
- Bruce Alberts
- Leif Andersson
- Michael Ashburner
- David Bentley
- David Botstein
- Elbert Branscomb
- Aravinda Chakravarti
- Francis Collins
- Myers & Cox
- David Cox
- Charles Delisi
- Paul Doty
- Ian Dunham
- Raymond Gesteland
- Mary Jane Gething
- Richard Gibbs
- Eric Green
- Philip Green
- David Haussler
- Leroy Hood
- Nancy Hopkins
- James Kent
- Aaron Klug
- Eric Lander
- David Lane
- Edward Lewis
- Peter Little
- Robert Martiennsen
- Ernst Mayr
- Matthew Meselson
- Karin Moelling
- Michael Morgan
- Richard Myers
- Maynard Olson
- Ari Patrinos
- Ulf Pettersson
- Ron Plasterk
- Martin Reese
- Matt Ridley
- Bruce Roe
- Gerald Rubin
- Nicoletta Sacchi
- Fred Sanger
- Merilyn Sleigh
- Hamilton Smith
- Bruce Stillman
- John Sulston
- Tim Tully
- J. Craig Venter
- Peter Vogt
- Nicholas Wade
- Robert Waterston
- James D. Watson
- James Wyngaarden