The Nano-Lectures: Eric Lander
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Eric
Lander, founder and director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center
for Genome Research; director of the Broad Institute; one of the
key pioneers in mapping and sequencing the entire human genome. |
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TOPIC: The Genome
Complete technical description in TWENTY-FOUR (24) SECONDS: Human Genome Project: Biology’s Moonshot. Fifteen years, six countries, twenty centers. Three billion dollars, three billion letters. One dollar per letter – such a deal!
Twenty-three chromosomes. Supposed to contain 100,000 genes . Turns out to only have 30,000 genes — or maybe 25,000. But it could be 40,000 — check back with us next year.
Said to have the answer to everything, absolutely everything. Diabetes, Asthma, Cancer, Evolution, Populations, Migrations, Life, Death, Taxes. Even the Boston Red Sox.
The only problem is: there’s no index.
Clear summary that anyone can understand, in SEVEN (7) WORDS: Genome: Bought the book; hard to read.
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