To: Wharf Rat who wrote (376421 ) 7/11/2018 11:31:49 AM From: koan Read Replies (1) | Respond to That was not the point of the authors argument Wharf. His point was that when a person puts myth above science how can they be trusted to evaluate policy and grants fairly? And the author gave examples of hypothetical conflicts that might arise.376421 from Wharf Rat at 7/10/2018 1:10:58 PMFrancis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician - geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project . Sherman Weissman , and in 1984 the two published a paper, "Directional Cloning of DNA Fragments at a Large distance From an Initial Probe: a Circularization Method". [5] The method described was named chromosome jumping , to emphasize the contrast with an older and much more time-consuming method of copying DNA fragments called chromosome walking . [6] University of Michigan faculty in 1984, rising to the rank of professor in internal medicine and human genetics. His gene-hunting approach, which he named " positional cloning ", [7] [8] developed into a powerful [9] component of modern molecular genetics.cystic fibrosis . Progress was modest until 1985, when Lap-Chee Tsui and colleagues at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children identified the locus for the gene. [10] It was then determined that a shortcut was needed to speed the process of identification, so Tsui contacted Collins, who agreed to collaborate with the Toronto team and share his chromosome-jumping technique. The gene was identified in June 1989, [11] [12] and the results were published in the journal Science on September 8, 1989. [13] This identification was followed by other genetic discoveries made by Collins and a variety of collaborators. They included isolation of the genes for Huntington's disease , [14] neurofibromatosis , [15] [16] multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 , [17] inv(16) AML [18] and Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome . [19] en.wikipedia.org
