Academic Sequencers Challenge Celera in a Sprint to the Finish

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The Human Genome Project has received large grants from the US government and the Wellcome Trust, a British charity, in 1999. These extra funds may make it possible to sequence the 3 billion bases in the human genetic code by the spring of 2000. The money is being concentrated in the most efficient labs, in order to compete with the private company Celera Genomics.

Human Genome Project, Chromosome mapping

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Rocky Mountain Rendezvous

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The meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, held in Jan 1999, discussed snakes, whales and birds among various other topics. The lack of limbs in snakes was discussed. Sperm whale anatomy was discussed. And the manakin bird's unusual habit using their wings during courtships was discussed.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Physiological aspects, Behavior, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Snakes, Biology, Birds, Animal anatomy, Sperm whale, Sperm whales

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Is It Time to Uproot the Tree of Life?

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Long-held beliefs about a predictable, RNA-based "tree of life", evolving in an orderly way from ordinary bacteria, Archaea, and eukaryotes, are eroding in the face of genome research. Several examples of recently discovered examples of surprising ancient microbial gene swapping are analyzed.

Research, Evolution (Biology), RNA, Evolution, Genetic research, Microbiological research

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