tommy
04-14-2003, 05:28 PM
Mapping of human genome completed
Mon Apr 14,12:45 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - Scientists have completed work on mapping the human genome (news - web sites), the six governments coordinating the project have announced.
The six countries -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Japan and the United States -- said Monday in a joint statement that researchers with the international Human Genome Project (news - web sites) had "succeeded in decoding all the chapters of the instruction book for human life", according to the French copy of the statement.
This would allow for revolutionary progress in biomedical sciences and human well-being, the statement said.
It said the project's genetic scientists had made "important progress for the health of everyone on the planet".
The Human Genome Project is an international consortium of public scientists launched in 1990 and coordinated by the six governments.
Scientists announced in February they had completed a map of 95 percent of the human genome. The complete sequence includes an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 genes that encode more than 10 times that number of proteins.
Knowledge of the human genome will enable scientists to find better ways of preventing medical problems, new drugs to treat previously untreatable disorders and medicines with fewer side effects, the Journal of the American Medical Association (news - web sites) said last November.
The human genome project will also give scientists the tools to cure every known form of cancer because it provides researchers with a guide of where to look for cancer-causing defects in genes and enzymes, according to leading cancer researcher Brian Druker.
Mon Apr 14,12:45 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - Scientists have completed work on mapping the human genome (news - web sites), the six governments coordinating the project have announced.
The six countries -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Japan and the United States -- said Monday in a joint statement that researchers with the international Human Genome Project (news - web sites) had "succeeded in decoding all the chapters of the instruction book for human life", according to the French copy of the statement.
This would allow for revolutionary progress in biomedical sciences and human well-being, the statement said.
It said the project's genetic scientists had made "important progress for the health of everyone on the planet".
The Human Genome Project is an international consortium of public scientists launched in 1990 and coordinated by the six governments.
Scientists announced in February they had completed a map of 95 percent of the human genome. The complete sequence includes an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 genes that encode more than 10 times that number of proteins.
Knowledge of the human genome will enable scientists to find better ways of preventing medical problems, new drugs to treat previously untreatable disorders and medicines with fewer side effects, the Journal of the American Medical Association (news - web sites) said last November.
The human genome project will also give scientists the tools to cure every known form of cancer because it provides researchers with a guide of where to look for cancer-causing defects in genes and enzymes, according to leading cancer researcher Brian Druker.