His discoveries could be used by bioengineers to make new arteries for bypass surgeries. The public and private projects to sequence the entire human genome announced in late June that they had completed the first draft. Scientists are calling this one of the biggest milestones in scientific history. Learn more about the next challenge for the Human Genome Project. New York Times 27 June 2000.
Human genome gets a rough draft.
Deseret News 24 June 2000. While researching a new protein, called Antizyme 3, scientists at the University of Utah were surprised to find a possible connection to male infertility. They discovered that the new protein regulates cellular levels of certain kind of ion. Upon recalling a study of mice that showed that excess levels of those same ions cause the male mice to be infertile, they theorized that this protein might also be involved in sperm development in humans. Further studies of the gene that carries the code for the new protein revealed that it is, in fact, crucial to sperm development.