genome news

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from SLATE: >The LA [TIMES], USA [TODAY] and WS [JOURNAL] reefer word that
a private company, the Celera Corporation, has announced it is in a
position to assemble a complete map of a human being's 80,000 or so genes
within three to six weeks, far earlier than expected, and apparently ahead
of a publicly financed academic collaborative effort that started work on
the project much earlier.<

this sounds like an effort to drive up the value of Celera's stock (if it
is a "public" company). Scientists aren't supposed to announce results
before they have them.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine