Saturday, October 23, 2004

Human Genome

DNA is life, at least on this planet. Literally the instructions for building a living thing. Biology was in the Dark Ages until DNA was understood. Now we have actually mapped out the entire Human Genome. This is a momentous event… it takes human biology out of the realm of science and puts it right smack into Engineering. The Information Age is history folks; we are in the BioEngineering Age now, for better or worse.

You can read your Genome for yourself at the NBCI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Genome MapViewer :
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/

(select Mammals\Homo Sapiens to get to the Human Chromosomes, then click on the numbered chromosome of interest)

Make the effort to spend some time cruising the Genome... there's some amazing stuff to be found. If this doesn’t give you the willies, nothing will.

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