Scientists Propose New International Cancer Effort Akin to Human Genome Project

Support for the Human Cancer Genome Project.

IN“ANOPENLETTERTOCANCERRESEARCHERS” (Letters, 21 Oct., p. 439), S. J. Elledge and G. J. Hannon questioned the wisdom of asking the NIH to undertake the Human Cancer Genome Project (HCGP) (1) recently proposed by a National Cancer Institute Working Group, of which we were members. Elledge and Hannon object to the HCGP on the grounds that the project is unlikely to achieve its goals, that the exp...

Plant scientists celebrate new woody plant genome.

Our friends often remind us that scientists are strange beasts. As such, it is fitting that we should rejoice at the release of a major new genome by further scholarship and analysis – using the genome to unravel new elements of plant physiology and evolution. In this Feature Issue we celebrate the completion of the genome of Eucalyptus grandis (Myburg et al., 2014), the first representative of...

The Italian Contribution to the International Solanaceae Genome Project (sol)

*) CNR-IGV, Institute of Plant Genetics, Via Università 133, 80055 Portici,Italy **) Department of Soil, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Via Università 100, 80055 Portici, Italy ***) Department of Structural and Functional Biology, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134 Naples, Italy ****) ENEA, Casaccia Research Center, P.O. Box 2400...

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.