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Industry benefits from the public funding of intellectual curiosity

Nature volume 406, page 826 (2000)Cite this article

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I was contacted recently by the Los Angeles Times, which had heard that the concept of expressed sequence tags (ESTs), essential to the human genome project, was developed in our laboratory. It is not generally known that we had described this development in 1983 in Nature1, preceding by many years the adaptation of the technique to the genome project2,3.

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