Celera, the company which raced the public Human Genome project to sequence human DNA, have decided to stop selling subscriptions to its genome database.
John Sulston, nobel prize winner and the head of the Human Genome Project in the UK co-wrote a wonderful book with Georgina Ferry about the whole story and was quite scathing about the attempts to privatise what he saw as our shared human heritage. He worked tirelessly and passionately with many colleagues to ensure the sequence would be freely available and will no doubt view this latest development with quiet satisfaction.
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