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Biotech / Medical : Celera Genomics (CRA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wl9839 who wrote (684)	2/11/2001 4:29:34 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 746

i highlight this bit from the aboveBoth teams believe that the sequencing and interpretation of the human genome is a historic event and expressed pride in their accomplishments. But both groups expressed humility at the minute steps they have so far taken in exploring the human genome's vast repository of knowledge. "In principle," the consortium's biologists concluded in their report, "the string of genetic bits holds long-sought secrets of human development, physiology and medicine. In practice, our ability to transform such knowledge into understanding remains woefully inadequate." Dr. Venter said simply that the effort to sequence and interpret the human genome had been "mentally exhausting, in part because we are not mentally equipped to absorb all this." "We feel like midgets describing the universe and we can't comprehend it all," he added.