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Molecular and Systems Biology--Leroy Hood
Pages 26-29

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... With University of California, San Francisco, professor Stanley Prusiner, we sequenced the proteins involved in prion diseases -- work that helped Prusiner win the Nobel Prize in 1997. We sequenced the pro tein erythropoietin, a hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells and was one of the first billion-dollar products in the biotechnology industry.
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... This got me into the next big adventure of my life, which was the Human Genome Project. Launched in 1990, the project completed an initial draft of the human genome in 2000, and a final draft in 2003.
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... A mutation Luc Montagnier exponential growth Kary B Mullis develops in the gene sequence independently in sequence information, the polymerase chain creates a protein that publish the DNA as Applied Biosystems reaction (PCR)
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... The ABI Systems increase analysis 1994 Mouse Sequencing PRISM® 3700 DNA Analyzer speed and provide even higher DNA evidence gains Consortium publishes sequence becomes the primary platform performance for protein and peptide acceptance for use of mouse genome, enabling used to sequence the human identification and analysis of small in criminal cases, and scientists to compare the contents genome, enabling molecule drug is brought to public of the human genome with the project to be metabolites attention in the this important animal. completed years important in O.J.
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