NIH Launches the Final Push To Sequence the Genome

摘要

It would be an exaggeration to say that the U.S. Human Genome 'Project has adopted Nike's slogan: "Just Do It." But the message being sent to the U.S. genome community this week comes close. As Science went to press, Francis Collins--director of the National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)--was preparing to announce six research awards that will launch the final phase of the effort to decipher the human genetic code.