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"I was surprised by the small number of genes they discovered," said Joshua LaBaer, an instructor in medicine and director of the Harvard Institute for Proteomics.
The full results, to be published in journals later this week, reveal that the actual number of human genes--about 30,000--is much smaller than previous estimates.
* In comparison to the genomes of other organisms, human genes tend to be distributed in clumps, with coded genes close together and long stretches of non-coding "junk" DNA;
*More than 200 genes in the human genome are most closely related to bacteria;
Recently, after a monkey named ANDi was born carrying jellyfish genes, George Will predicted that genetic engineering would "end the human story" in a manner more swift and certain than nuclear war. Will's fear was not that genetic monsters or superviruses would destroy us, but that the genetic design...