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June 2, 1998
Health Fair Offers Something
NIH Issues Itself Report Card
Seaman To Present Gorgas Lecture, June 10
NIDR To Hold 50th Anniversary Symposium
ORWH Seminar Focuses on 'What's Fat?'
NIGMS Hosts Minority Program Directors' Meeting
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
New Sequencing Center Aids Intramural Science By Rich McManus
In a low-rise biotech beehive just off I-270 in Gaithersburg, the new NIH
Intramural Sequencing Center -- a 14-institute consortium that is one of perhaps a
half dozen nonprivate centers in the United States dedicated to large-scale
sequencing -- is quietly parsing all the A's, T's, C's and G's that make up stretches
of human and animal DNA of interest to bench scientists. Showing up on the
computer screen as rosaries of red, blue, green and yellow, the nucleotides are
exposed and decoded so that scientists such as NIDCD's Dr. Thomas Friedman
can make discoveries such as appeared in the May 29 issue of Science: mutations
in an unconventional myosin gene are another cause of hereditary deafness.
By Jan Ehrman
It happens every spring. The crack of the bat. The quest to finish your taxes by
Apr. 15. And, on a more chipper note, the kickoff for the NIH U.S. Savings
Bonds Program. This year's ceremony, the first ever deliberately held indoors,
took place May 11 in Wilson Hall before a spirited assembly of coordinators,
canvassers and officials. | |||
Dr. Jeff Touchman
Treasurer Mary Ellen Withrow