University of British Columbia / University of California San Francisco / Dana Farber Cancer Institute / King’s College / University of California / New York’s Rockefeller Institute / National Cancer Institute / Johns Hopkins University / /
ic diseases / retinoblastoma / sickle cell anemia / genes cancer / uterine and ovarian cancer / eye cancer retinoblastoma / Huntington disease / disorder / human diseases / thalassemia / sicklecell anemia / eye tumors / immune disorder / pneumonia / cancer / tumors / genetic disorder / diabetes / chronic granulomatous disease / sometimes fatal blood clots / inherited disease / HNPCC / hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer / diseases / specific disease / such disorders / disorders / blood disorder / early-onset breast cancer / sickle-cell anemia / cuts / muscular dystrophy / strain / several more common disorders / human disorders / specifcolon cancer / specific disorders / heart disease / colon cancer / severe anemia / cystic fibrosis / RFLPs signal several other common genetic disorders / common diseases / cancers / Alzheimer’s disease / hereditary diseases / disease / such debilitating illness / hereditary disease / common and complex disorders / Cooley’s anemia / common genetic disorders / fatal neurologic disorder Tay-Sachs disease / anemia / /
MedicalTreatment
radiation / low-fat diet / /
NaturalFeature
Sardinia / /
Organization
New York’s Rockefeller Institute / Harvard News Office / National Center for Human Genome / University of California / San Francisco / King’s College in London / National Cancer Institute / National Institute of Health / Harvard University / Institute of Medicine / Division of Research Services / Johns Hopkins University / Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston / National Academy of Sciences / Medical Research Council / University of British Columbia / /
Person
Gene Markers / Stuart Orkin / Bert Volgelstein / Beth / Andrée-Marie Dozy / Daniel Nathans / Paul Modrich / Werner Arber / Oswald Avery / Kary Mullis / Allan Maxam / Maurice Wilkins / Fred Sanger / Francis Crick / Wai Kan / Yuet Wai Kan / Gary Felsenfeld / James Watson / GENE TESTING / Richard Kolodner / Margie Patlak / Rosalind Franklin / Gregor Mendel / Marshall Nirenberg / Walter Gilbert / Bert Vogelstein / /
Position
bacteriologist / double-helix model / Howard Hughes Medical Investigator / science writer / young scientist / scientist / /
Product
form / gene / genes / /
ProgrammingLanguage
R / C / /
ProvinceOrState
British Columbia / Sardinia / California / /
PublishedMedium
the Cell / Molecular Biology / /
Technology
radiation / x-ray / positional cloning / Human Genome / hybridization / biotechnology / cloning / DNA synthesis / genetic code / DNA sequencing / /
This article was published in 1996 and has not been updated or revised. BEYOND DISCOVERY T H E PAT H F R O M R E S E A R C H T O H U M A N B E N E F I T B