Word: gene
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...watermarks on Mars, and brought the number of planets discovered outside our solar system to nearly 50. Closer to home, this was the year they cloned a pig, approved an abortion pill and took saccharin off the list of known carcinogens. It was also the year that gene therapy, having shown promise in treating a pair of French "bubble boys," suffered its first casualty--a brave young patient named Jesse Gelsinger, who underwent the experimental gene transplant not to save himself but to help other youngsters suffering, as he had been, from congenital disorders...
...HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES CHAIRMAN AND CEO: William A. Haseltine FOUNDED: July 1992 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 650 WHAT IT DOES: Patents genes and develops proprietary gene-based drugs...
...GENE LOGIC INC. PRESIDENT AND CEO: Mark D. Gessler FOUNDED: November 1994 EMPLOYEES: 250 WHAT IT DOES: Builds custom and nonproprietary gene-expression databases...
...reseller of genetic information, Gene Logic offers as its main product the GeneExpress reference database, which shows which genes are over- or under-expressed in various diseases ranging from heart failure to cancer. Gene Logic gathers and packages the data and sells it to biotech and pharmaceutical companies...
...long before then, whole new categories of questions will emerge. For where scientists once studied genetics--the structure and function of individual genes--they've now entered the age of genomics, in which they will study huge numbers of genes acting in concert. "The gene is like a piano key," says James Shreeve, author of an upcoming book, The Golden Code. "Up to this point, we've been going after notes. Now we have the keyboard. You had to have that level of detail to understand the music...