Why is BER supporting Bioremediation Research?
• What progress is being made in the Department of Energy’s Human Genome Program Answer: • The program continues to develop resources and technologies that are in demand in the broader research community, and there has been considerable progress towards several specific goals. • In mapping projects, a new resource of readily sequenced DNA clones is serving in the completion of some maps and will speed projects where fine structure mapping has been slow. • The chromosome microdissection project had a pivotal role in this year’s discovery of the colon cancer gene and is similarly aiding other disease gene hunts. • The Sequencing by Hybridization DNA sequencing technology has been demonstrated to be a powerful system for economical and massively parallel characterizations of the DNA clones representing expressed genes. • Three National Laboratories (BNL, LANL, and LLNL) have CRADAs for transfer of novel DNA sequencing technologies, and robotic systems for DNA clone processing developed at
