Biotechnology in the
News:
- Receive a FREE colorful human
genome poster from The US Department of Energy Human Genome Program
and Qiagen Inc. at: public.ornl.gov/hgmis/external/poster_request.cfm
(you can also view an interactive online version of the poster).
- Chromosome
FAQs offers a succinct, simple description
of human genome terminology and facts.
- Request a great new FREE education
kit for grades 9-12 from the National Institute of Health (NIH).
It includes a CD-ROM, brochure, and poster on the Human Genome
Project. You can learn more and sign up for it at: www.nhgri.nih.gov/educationkit/
- The National Institute of
Health also offers other free curriculum supplement kits on "Cell
Biology and Cancer", "Infectious Diseases" and
"Human Genetic Variation". You can sign up for these
kits (including CD-ROMs) at: science-education.nih.gov/supplements
- The scientific journals, Science
and Nature
are allowing online access to their landmark issues on the human
genome project. Click on each magazine title to access the research
articles in each.
- Human Genome
Project Timeline
provides information
on the events and people who shaped the current Human Genome
Project, beginning with Watson and Crick's discovery of the structure
of DNA in 1953.
Other News:
- While the world was focusing
attention on the human genome project, the first complete plant
genome was sequenced, as reported in the December 14, 2000 issue of
the journal, Nature. Arabidopsis thaliana
is in the mustard family, related to the Wisconsin Fast Plants
used in many classrooms. It is a model genetic organism used
in research laboratories because of its rapid life cycle, small
physical size, and relatively small genome of 120Mb. Studies
of some of Arabidopsis' 26,000 genes have illuminated
areas of plant biology from photosynthesis to development and
evolution to cell biology.
(Photo credit: Closeup of
Arabidopsis thaliana flower from the Nature Genome Gateway)
Just for fun... send a DNA-o-gram message encoded in the
"language of life"!
Send comments
and suggestions to: czanta@life.uiuc.edu
last updated 11.09.01