American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting: San Francisco, California 15-20 February 2001
Judy Marcure
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One of the grand circuses of the scientific world, the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science traditionally offer something for everyone. This year, the AAAS meeting drew over 4000 participants to San Francisco to listen to scientists, ethicists, sociologists, marketers, policy makers, and even venture capitalists talk about matters scientific-and what they mean for all of us.
Although always stimulating, the AAAS meeting had a special buzz this year. The major findings of the successfully completed international human genome project were presented just one week earlier in two of North America's most important science publications, the AAAS' own Science and in its competitor, Nature. Conference plenary session speakers included the heads of the two project teams: Francis Collins, leader of the publicly funded consortium of academic centers, and J. Craig Venter of Celera Genomics.
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