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Title: Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology: Volume 51, Molecular biology of Homo sapiens

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OSTI ID:6207218

Thirteen years marked the time between the discovery of the double helix in 1953 and the elucidation of the genetic code in 1966. A similar interval has now passed since the development by Cohen and Boyer of a simple procedure for the cloning of selective DNA fragments. The scientific advances made possible by the subsequent modification and elaboration of these original cloning procedures now amaze, stimulate, and increasingly often overwhelm us. Facts that until recently were virtually unobtainable now flow forth almost effortlessly. Most excitingly, the frenetic pace of these new discoveries, instead of marking the impending end of a glorious moment of learning, give every indication of opening up scientific frontiers that will take hundreds if not thousands of years to explore thoroughly. This new era of enlightenment is nowhere more apparent than in our newfound ability to study ourselves at the molecular level. This volume is the first of two collections of papers submitted by the contributors to the Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology for 1986 - molecular biology of Homo sapiens. Contained in this collection are 80 papers grouped into sessions entitled Human Gene Map, Genetic Diagnosis, Human Evolution, and Drugs Made Off Human Genes.

Research Organization:
Cold Spring Harbor Lab., NY (USA)
OSTI ID:
6207218
Report Number(s):
CONF-8605274-Pt.1
Resource Relation:
Conference: 51. Cold Spring Harbor symposium on quantitative biology: molecular biology of Homo sapiens, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA, 28 May 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English