11. ----- Increasingly, pharmaceutical companies are using genetic research to streamline the creation of new drugs. 12. A parliamentary vote in January is expected to clarify the issue and decide whether to loosen restrictions on genetic research. 13. Already such prophecies, hopeful yet disquieting, have confronted legislators with the question of whether federal or state money should be used for genetic research. 14. Bruce is a physician who also runs a genetic research lab, and he writes in a language I can only pretend to understand. 15. But genetic research has generated a mountain of data that continues to grow. 16. But new genetic research by Quebec scientists shows that the gathering is a lot tamer. 17. But the revolution in genetic research could soon send the old markers in search of pensions. 18. But understanding the fruit fly, a work horse of genetic research, has great value in itself. 19. Carol Bult, a scientist at Jackson who specializes in turning genetic research into databases, disagrees. 20. Cohen, a genome-mapping pioneer and a founder of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Millennium, joined Genset in February to head up its genetic research. |