$10 Million Prize Offered for Genome Sequencing
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The terms of the prize require competitors to sequence 100 human genomes of their choice within 10 days, and, within six months, those of a further 100 individuals chosen by the foundation.
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Researchers say a new programme could help create a DNA database of all life on Earth, ever.
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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Experts to map the genomes of 1,000 people worldwide in a bid to understand how genes influence disease.
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A MELBOURNE biotech company will offer scientists unconditional access to a new embryonic stem-cell line in an effort to speed up lifesaving medical research.
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There's a $10 million prize waiting for the team that builds a super-green, ultra-efficient vehicle. Start your engines, it's the race to build the 100-mpg car.
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IBM supercomputer drafted to help do the math on genes connected to cancer, other diseases.
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By Castelluccio, Michael  THE MAPPING OF THE HUMAN GENOME was supposed to take 15 years, but it was completed early in 2003 after 13 years of combined effort by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
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A leading human genome scientist says he has taken a major step towards creating life from scratch in the lab.
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If the Human Genome Project gave biologists the equivalent of a parts list for a car, then the latest biology mega-project will be like the instructions that show how the parts combine to make an operating fuel injector.
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) have finished analysing and sequencing Chromosome 16. This completes the US share of the Human Genome Project, JGI said yesterday.
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An international scientific consortium decodes the chicken genome.
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Scientists are racing to develop a test to catch athletes who may attempt to boost performance by manipulating their genes.
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The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA has become the first person to receive his own personal genome map.
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The first individual genome ever sequenced -- a complete DNA blueprint of celebrity scientist Craig Venter -- has revealed genetic variation among humans far richer than previously imagined.
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German scientists are using a new computational method to analyze DNA taken from microorganisms that make up more than a third of the Earth's biomass.
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The X-Prize Foundation offers "the largest medical prize in history" for the first team to decode 100 human genomes in 10 days.