In this month's issue of Genome Research, Elizabeth Stewart and her colleagues at Stanford University present this new map, which places about 8000 landmarks along the genome's 3 billion bases — DNA's building blocks — yielding twice the resolution of
gene maps currently in use.
«The Department of Health and its
Gene Therapy Advisory Committee are
currently working with other regulators in the field to produce a «Regulatory Route
Map» to provide further clarity on the regulatory requirements for the clinical use of stem cells.»