Fruits of co-operation
SAMBA, football and...genomics. The list of things for which Brazil is renowned has suddenly got longer. Only a few days after publishing, on July 13th, the first-ever sequence of the genome of a plant pathogen, scientists at Sao Paulo's state research agency, Fapesp, were due to announce, on July 21st, another success—the composition of 279,000 human expressed-sequence tags, small pieces of DNA that allow genes to be located along chromosomes. Only in America and Britain have more than that number of human ESTs been identified.
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