"Interdisciplinary," "innovative" or "integrative" research centers are sprouting up on dozens of campuses across the country, most of them prompted by the gusher of information about genes, proteins, their signals and their interactions that is streaming out of labs associated with the Human Genome Project. continued...

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Reprinted from the
HHMI Bulletin, June 2003, pages 24-28.
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