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Molecular biologists still know so little about the human genome, in fact, that even with some 85% of the sequence published on the HGP's GenBank website for every scientist in the world to see, nobody has even a ballpark figure for how many genes humans have. Before this week, the betting ranged from as few as 28,000 to as many as 140,000. Now it looks more like...
...scientist whose work has been transformed by genomics is Dr. David Altshuler, an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who does research at M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute. A diabetes expert, he wanted to learn more about a gene known to be involved in adult-onset (Type II) diabetes and obesity. He knew that the gene was about 100,000 chemical letters--or base pairs--long, and that only about 2,000 of those directed the production of a protein...
Another Whitehead scientist, oncologist Dr. Todd Golub, is trying to improve on the primitive techniques doctors use to guide their fight against cancer. Currently, pathologists use the location of a tumor in the patient's body and its appearance under a microscope to determine what sort of malignancy is involved. It works often--but not always. Melanoma, for example, starts out as a skin cancer but may end up in the lung or breast, where it can be much more damaging than primary lung or breast cancer...
...There's more, like the female scientist who saw a flashing light in the smoke detector and heard "an unusual noise that sounded like an auto-focus camera lens as it adjusted" whenever she got undressed. Another scientist traveling in a foreign country checked his laptop - which had been padlocked - to find it had been entered with a "guest access" sign-in. Computer logs revealed that the same logon had been used the last time he was in that country...
...just worried about "sensitive" nations; it concluded that scientists traveling to countries like Britain and France are at risk too, and recommended that all travel requests by, scientists be reviewed by the DOE. Maybe every time a scientist wants to leave the country, he should have to take Richardson along...