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To: Jongmans who wrote ()6/25/2000 10:16:00 PM
From: Secret_Agent_Man   of 539
 
Sunday June 25, 10:03 pm Eastern Time

White House sets human genome
announcement

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - President Bill Clinton will preside over
the announcement on Monday of a scientific milestone expected to
eventually transform medicine: the compilation a rough map of the human
genome, a White House official said.

Clinton has scheduled a 10:00 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) event at the White House to announce the
breakthrough.

Representatives of the two rivals racing to complete the project -- publicly funded Human Genome
Project and the private Celera Genomics (NYSE:CRA - news) -- are expected to be at the
ceremony.

``It essentially is to announce a dramatic breakthrough in science and one that offers a lot of
possibility for improving our ... medical care,'' the official said.

He said Clinton also aimed ``to make clear that the scientific work will go on in a cooperative
manner and that as much information as possible will be made public so that others in the private
sector and public sector can do the research that's needed to develop ... new drugs and
medicines.''

The teams at Celera and the Human Genome Project have been at times competitive and at
times acrimonious as they have raced to sequence and assemble the DNA that makes up the
genes -- the blueprint of life. They have also haggled over whether to join forces in doing the work
and publishing the results.

But Clinton has taken a keen interest in the project, talking about it frequently, and has sought to
bring the two sides together.

Along with the work in deciphering the genome has come a controversy over whether the research
could be commercialized. Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a joint statement in
March suggesting research into the genome would have to be made freely available to
researchers.

But Clinton said in April that a discovery with ``specific commercial application'' should be
patentable.

The next step, which will take years, will be sorting out which bits in this code constitute the genes
and which parts are so-called ``junk'' DNA.

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