September 25, 1998
Human Genome Project Plans to Speed Up Work on DNA Mapping
Facing competition from two biotechnology companies, government-supported scientists said last week that they would speed up their research to determine the sequence of the three billion bases, or chemical units, that make up human DNA.
In the new, accelerated version of the federal plan, the university scientists hope to have a complete and polished description of all of the chemical details of the DNA in
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