Other scientists (including Jay Keasling, last year's DISCOVER Scientist of the Year) are having great success adding handfuls of genes to E. coli and other microbes to make a variety of valuable products, including medicines and jet fuel. (discovermagazine.com)
For example, scientists have found that deleting a handful of genes could potentially increase human lifespan by 60 percent, which seems incredible. (entrepreneur.com)
But most existing funding was going toward sequencing the handful of genes most likely to lead to profitable drugs and gene therapies. (discovermagazine.com)