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Biology Will Relate Every Human Gene To The Genes Of Other Animals And Bacteria, To This Great Chain Of Being.

We Haven't Been Able Yet To Determine In Terms Of Genes What Makes A Human Being A Human And Not Another Mammal.

Why Do We Do Basic Research? To Learn About Ourselves.

I Am Afraid That Those Comments Go Back To The Late 80's. At That Time I Was A Skeptic - The Argument Based On Koch's Postulates To Try To Distinguish Between Cause And Association. Today I Would Regard The Success Of The Many Antiviral Agents Which Lower The Virus Titers (to Be Expected) And Also Resolve The Failure Of The Immune System (only Expected If The Virus Is The Cause Of The Failure) As A Reasonable Proof Of The Causation Argument .

In 15 Years We'll Have All The Sequence, A List Of The Genes Everyone Has In Common And Those That Differ Among People. We Know Only Something Like A Tenth Of 1 Percent Of The Sequence At The Moment.