To Know Ourselves 

    U.S. Department of Energy, July 1996

    To Know Ourselves was prepared at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Health and Environmental Research, as an overview of the Human Genome Project. It was edited and produced at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

We have thus seen only the dawn of a biological revolution.The practical and economicapplications of biology are destined fordramatic growth. Health-related biotechnology is already a multibillion-dollar successstory—and is still far from reaching its potential. Other applications of biotechnology are likely to beget similar successes in the comingdecades.

Among these applications are severalof great importance to the DOE. We canlook to improvements in waste control and anexciting era of environmental bioremediation; we will see new approaches to improvingenergy efficiency; and we can even hope for dramatic strides toward meeting the fueldemands of the future. The insights, the technologies, and the infrastructure that arealready emerging from the genome project, together with advances in fields such as computational and structural biology, are amongour most important tools in addressing thesenational needs.

From the Report.

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