 Jean Weissenbach: Back to the Biochemical Basics
In
October 1992, the journal Nature published the first
comprehensive linkage map of the human genome, courtesy of a new
French research center known as Généthon. The map included over
800 markers, covering roughly 90% of our DNA, and it was the first
salvo in a revolution that has transformed the fields of molecular
biology and genetics. Today, fully sequenced genomes appear
monthly, if not weekly; plans are in the works to elucidate entire
proteomes and transcriptomes; the buzzword of the day is "omics"
(as in "genomics," "proteomics," "transcriptomics,"
and similar coinages); and the science of high-throughput systems
biology has blossomed to make sense of the flood of data that is
emerging.
Throughout
this revolution, very few
scientists have had as great an influence as Jean Weissenbach, the
principal investigator on the original Généthon linkage maps. At
this writing, Weissenbach stands at number two in the Essential
Science IndicatorsSM
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Product Profile of Jean Weissenbach.
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 U.S.
Slide in World Share Continues as European Union, Asia Pacific
Advance
Over
the last 15 years, the United States has seen its share of
world output in science steadily decrease, while the
collective shares of nations in the European Union and the
Asia Pacific region have increased, according to a new Science
Watch survey. The graph above
illustrates this trend, comparing
percent share of papers for each year between 1990 and 2004...
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