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Nature Medicine 8, 1191 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm1102-1191a
Genome scientists' paths diverge
Karen Birmingham1 & Marlene Cimons2
- London
- Washington, DC
Sequencing the human genome is a hard act to follow, and the two men who spearheaded the sequencing effort have taken different paths in the aftermath of that revolutionary biological project, just as they did to achieve the first draft of the genome in 2001. Britain's John Sulston, one of the leaders of the public sequencing consortium, has returned to basic research, and last month shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine for his early developmental biology work on the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.
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