LONDON (AP) -- Rival teams of scientists have completed the first rough map of the human genetic code. The publicly funded Human Genome Project and the private Celera Genomics Corp. had scheduled news conferences Monday to announce...

With the announcement that the entire human genetic code has been assembled, scientists now have a thrilling...within the 23 pairs of human chromosomes that make up the genetic code. J. Craig Venter, chief scientist of Celera Genomics...

...have virtually completed a rough draft of the human genetic code: Do genes determine everything about us? Genes and...That means that of the 3 billion letters in the human genetic code, each of us differs in about 300,000. Remarkably...

...Poletto's opinion. If the remains of male human blood on the shroud belong to Jesus, science could establish his genetic code. (Thus his bizarre book title about God's DNA.) Could some future Dr. Frankenstein clone the Savior from shroud...

...restructuring since AT&T's breakup in 1984. 7) Genetic code mapped: New medical frontiers opened when scientists announced that they had virtually deciphered the human genetic code. 8) The Year 2000: The new year arrived mostly glitch-free...

...infected, though, a few of these helper cells become memory cells. HIV has already stitched its genes into the cells' genetic code in preparation for making more virus. But nothing happens. The cells go to sleep, virus and all. All of this happens...

...Louis appears in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. It is the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the genetic code of the Y chromosome. The work is "a landmark for the history of sex determination," declared Dr. Francis S. Collins...

...discoveries have been more incremental than dramatic. Now, more powerful computers are being used to produce the genetic codes of all sorts of creatures in record time - and at lower costs. The chicken genome cost about $50 million and swine...

...human cells; around 60 times for cows. All chromosomes have protective tips called telomeres that prevent a cell's genetic code from fraying during this cellular division. But each time the cell divides, the telomere gets a little shorter. It...

...it was appropriate that the dinner was held the day after scientists announced that they had mapped the entire human genetic code. Vento was a science and social studies teacher before he became a congressman 24 years ago. ''Bruce said, 'Well...