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Nature Medicine 7, 266 (2001)
doi:10.1038/85386
Sir John Sulston
Karen Birmingham1
- London
Abstract
The race between the public (International Human Genome Consortium) and private (Celera) efforts to sequence the human genome was relatively fierce by scientific standards. But as last month's publications in Science and Nature show, the two groups crossed the finishing line together. Nature Medicine talked to the man who, as part of the Consortium, lead the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, UK, through this historical time to sequence the second largest part of the genome outside the US.
The opening few minutes of our interview define the type of man that Sir John Sulston is. He had read the first two profiles in this series—featuring Harold Varmus and Thomas Cech—and immediately offered his humbled apologies that he felt he didn't quite fit the line-up.
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