More money needed for human genome mapping project

"More money for health - more health for the money": a human resources for health perspective

BACKGROUND At the MDG Summit in September 2010, the UN Secretary-General launched the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. Central within the Global Strategy are the ambitions of "more money for health" and "more health for the money". These aim to leverage more resources for health financing whilst simultaneously generating more results from existing resources - core tenets of pu...

Assessing mapping progress in the Human Genome Project.

An important goal of the Human Genome Project in the United States is to construct a physical map of the human genome, consisting of unique genomic landmarks at an average spacing of 100 kilobases (kb). When completed (which is projected for the year 1998), the map will consist of 30,000 ordered sites, distributed relatively evenly throughout the genome. Such a map should provide the scientific...

The Human Genome Project.

Dear readers, The last few decades have seen a number of exciting developments in genetics. First, Watson and Crick broke the genetic code; since then, tech-nologic and methodologic breakthroughs have permitted the study and direct manipulation of our DNA. Now there is an international ground swell to map and sequence the human genome. The Bush administration had originally requested $128 milli...

The Human Genome Project.

The Human Genome Project

genetic mapping; DNA; applied research; molecular genetics T Human Genome Project is an international research project whose primary mission is to decipher the chemical sequence of the complete human genetic material (i.e., the entire genome), identify all 50,000 to 100,000 genes contained within the genome, and provide research tools to analyze all this genetic information. This ambitious proj...