Biotech and Human
Genome
Human Genome Project Search Engine and stie (press
here). Yahoo News service search engine and list of Biotech sites with
stories form AP, BBC and others (press
here).
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December 14, 1999 Life Is Pared to
Basics. Complex Issues Arise - (press
here) NY Times Touches on some ethics issues.
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September/October 1999 Go to
list of links Mining the Genome By Antonio Regalado - Technology
Review (press
here) The Human Genome Project has piled up a mountain of data. How
will companies extract the gold of new drugs? One emerging tool may hold
the key: pattern-finding software that uncovers therichest veins.
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See Tech Review Past Issues Site for similar
items (press here).
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9/99 Surfing the Human Genome Databases
of Genetic Code Are Moving to the Web By LAWRENCE M. FISHER New York Times
(press
here). ---some industry executives foresee the day when an educated
consumer might take a CD-ROM containing a laboratory's rendering
of his or her genetic profile, and combine it with a Web surf through gene
libraries to determine the person's predisposition toward adverse drug
reactions, for example, or for Alzheimer's disease, colon cancer or other
afflictions that might eventually be treatable through gene therapy.
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October 8, 1999 - Across the Country,
Universities Generate a High-Tech Economic Boom By CAREY GOLDBERG - Biotech
and Knowledge institutes and buildings at Universities - (press
here), "research centers and institutions are undisputedly the most
important factor in incubating high-tech industries." The institutions,
experts say, provide nearby companies streams of cutting-edge knowledge
as well as streams of smart labor.
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What is being done?
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Murphy, Pat (1999) "Campaign to change the
world." Environmental News Network, November 1st (press
here).