Thursday, January 17, 2008

What was the Biggest Breakthrough in 2007 ?

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Human Genetic Variation
Elizabeth Pennisi

Equipped with faster, cheaper technologies for sequencing DNA and assessing variation in genomes on scales ranging from one to millions of bases, researchers are finding out how truly different we are from one another

What makes us unique. Changes in the number and order of genes (A-D) add variety to the human genome. If you are not taken to this site, please cut and paste the URL below:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5858/1842

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