The Human Proteome Project

Humanity is at the brink of a biological revolution. In the year 2011, only the tip of the biological iceberg has revealed itself. The next several decades will unveil an unprecedented rate of technological advance, particularly in the fields of genomics and proteomics. While understanding the genome is the essential first step towards this revolution, the real development and exploitation of this technology will happen via proteomics. The Human Proteome Project is the critical bridge between knowledge of the genome and full operationalization of tactics and techniques to manipulate biological processes in very deliberate and specific ways. These findings will create synergies leading to the specific and precise exploitation of genetic data. The project will yield such comprehensive knowledge of the biological and molecular function of human life that medical diagnosis and intervention will be radically altered. Future biological technology has the potential for both good and evil. Primarily seen as medical research and a path to development of better medications, the majority of research occurs at either pharmaceutical firms or other public research centers. Some of these entities are state sponsored and others are university affiliated, but advances in medical science appear to be the primary driver for the majority of this work.

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Kirsty Shipton is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester. A former scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, she holds degrees from Glasgow, Oxford, and London where she is a recent winner of the George Grote and Norman Baynes prizes in Ancient History. She has published articles on
Greek and Roman literature and on Greek history, and is the author of a forthcoming study of the cash-based economy of fourth century Athens. Andrew Meadows is Curator of Ancient Greek Coins at the British Museum, and holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Michigan. He is the author of
articles on Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, and numismatics. He is secretary of the British Academy's Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Committee, and the editor of two volumes in the series, as well as editor of the Royal Numismatic Society's Coin Hoards.