Dr. Brenner conceived the idea of sequencing the fugu genome so as to find the genes more quickly and develop a basis of comparison with the human genome.
It was a previous chancellor of U.C. Santa Cruz, Dr. Robert L. Sinsheimer, who in 1985 held the first meeting to explore the idea of sequencing the human genome.
I wanted to measure variation, so I'm the one that came up the idea of sequencing a large number of genomes.
The idea of sequencing the DNA of immune cells is still in its infancy and pursued mostly by academics and a handful of companies, so Adaptive must establish demand for a whole new category of test.
With a buddy in grad school at Cornell 12 years ago he hatched the idea of sequencing the genetic code in nanotech holes.
The idea of sequencing many healthy people has since caught on; in fact, it's now the basis for some of the biggest ongoing projects in biology.
About 30 years ago, Prof Church was one of a handful of people who dreamed up the idea of sequencing the entire human genome - every letter in the code that separates us from fruit flies as well as our parents.
Since the idea of sequencing the Neandertal genome became more than a glimmer in a paleogeneticist's eye, some have asked, "Could we, should we, would we, bring this extinct human species back to life?" But for both technical and ethical reasons, experts say, bringing back a Neandertal is a pipe dream.
So since the idea of sequencing the Neandertal genome became more than a glimmer in a paleogeneticist's eye, some have asked, "Could we, should we, would we, bring this extinct human species back to life?" After all, biologists are trying to bring back the woolly mammoth by cloning.
