For about 50 years, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and its governing bodies have been responsible for a deep study of potential human health risks from energy use and energy-generating technologies - We know that most of what we currently know about the harmful health effects of radiation on human bodies resulted from the research supported by these government agencies - including the long-term studies of survivors of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, DID of experimental studies conducted on animals.
Until recently, science had little hope of detecting the subtle changes in DNA that encode our genetic program. We needed a tool to detect changes in a single word of the program, which might contain 100 million (a word).
In 1984, at a joint meeting of the US Department of Energy, the International Commission for the Prevention of Mutagens and Carcinogens, for the first time seriously raised the question: Can we, or should we, sequence the human genome? In other words, we need to develop a technique that enables us to obtain a precise word-word version of the full genetic code of a normal human being, and thus we find the key to detecting the mutagenic deceptive effects of radiation and cancer-causing toxins.
Until recently, science had little hope of detecting the subtle changes in DNA that encode our genetic program. We needed a tool to detect changes in a single word of the program, which might contain 100 million (a word).
In 1984, at a joint meeting of the US Department of Energy, the International Commission for the Prevention of Mutagens and Carcinogens, for the first time seriously raised the question: Can we, or should we, sequence the human genome? In other words, we need to develop a technique that enables us to obtain a precise word-word version of the full genetic code of a normal human being, and thus we find the key to detecting the mutagenic deceptive effects of radiation and cancer-causing toxins.
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