US firm's bid to sequence rice genome causes stir in Japan...

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US concern Celera Genomics plans to sequence the 430-megabase rice genome in only six weeks using the shotgun method. This involves the genome being divided into small, random fragments that are then united to create the entire sequence. This initiative poses a significant challenge to the Japanese government's Rice Genome Sequencing Project, under which it is planned to complete sequencing by 2008. It will now be necessary for Japanese scientists to revise their approach, and there are plans to create physical maps of all 12 chromosomes by the end of 1999.

Planning, Genetic aspects, Rice, Chromosome mapping

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Japan's transplant law 'is too stringent'...

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Patients in Japan fear that current regulations covering transplantation are too stringent and prevent operations from being widely available. The Japanese population is generally reluctant to accept the idea of organ transplants, but there are over 600 patients requiring organ transplants each year. The country's first legal heart, liver and kidney transplants, since the Wada heart transplant in 1968, were recently undertaken.

Japan, Social policy, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation

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