He's Writing the Book On the Mouse Genome

摘要

Yokohama―It will never be a bestseller, and you won't find it on Amazon.com. But a book produced by Japanese genome scientist Yoshihide Hayashizaki seems destined to become a classic. It's like no other volume ever published―a textbook-sized tome containing 60,770 clones of mouse complementary DNA (cDNA), a comprehensive collection of the animal's protein-coding sequences. Researchers can simply punch the clones out of the page, dissolve them in water, amplify them with the polymerase chain reaction, and put them to use.