This article appears in Science 18 May, 2001 (Vol. 292, pp 1275) The European Union has come to the rescue of the continent's premier repository of DNA and protein sequence information. As Science went to press, the E.U. was preparing to announce that it would help provide a roughly 50% boost in the $11 million annual budget of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). The cash injection, to c...
Reposted from Science magazine, Apr. 26, 2002. Renaud Legouis has had an enviable career for a researcher only 34 years old. As a student in developmental biology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in the early 1990s, he helped identify the gene for Kallmann syndrome, a rare and enigmatic disease characterized by a failure to enter puberty and by a loss of the sense of smell. Shortly after receivi...
