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Maynard Olson receives $500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize
July 9, 2007, New York, New York The human genome would have been an impossible jigsaw puzzle without the work of Maynard Olson. ... He created a way of breaking genomes into manageable pieces, applied it to the yeast genome, and made the human genome project a possibility. Now he is working to apply genome science to real biological problemsstarting with the bacterium that kills many people wi...