"The Genome Project has been a great adventure. It began as the dream of a few visionaries, was embraced by the entire scientific community, and achieved its goals with the cooperation of public and private institutions. This is the true story of a great scientific achievement in our time. The secret of its success includes many factors. The main one was the absolute dedication of many scientists, who believed they could achieve their goal despite the scarcity of technical means available. These means were quickly developed, such as new and fully automated technologies to determine the organisation of DNA, trace genes, read the messages they contain and their meanings. New approaches were used to determine gene activity, exploring the entire genome in a single step. The contribution of information technology has been extraordinary in this progress."
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Renato Dulbecco
1914 – 2012
Renato Dulbecco (1914-2012) was an Italian-born American virologist and 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses.
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