Scientists revel in a day of glory  New weapon in battle against
cancer already shows startling success  The ethics of genetics:
special report  Scientists worldwide have a new weapon in the
war against cancer with the long-awaited completion of the first
draft of the "book of humanity", the complete text of human DNA,
announced in London and Washington yesterday.  "It is now
conceivable that our children and our children's children will
know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars,"
President Clinton told Tony Blair in a joint announcement.  And
Mr Blair called the completion of the human genome - 3bn
chemical "letters" which spell out all the human genes - a
"breakthrough that opens the way for massive advances." It was a
day of glory for thousands of scientists who had worked on the
project in Britain, France, Germany, Japan, China and the US.
And the news was greeted with delight by researchers everywhere.
"Today is the day in which the scientific community hands over
its gift of the human geno