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Singapore's been doing it for years By ERIC ELLIS June 27, 2000 Web posted at 2:30 p.m. Hong Kong time, 2:30 a.m. EDT Living in Singapore, one could be excused for yawning about all this human genome stuff. I mean, that arch social engineer (control freak?) Lee Kuan Yew has been busy building Singaporeans for quite a while now. Making people perfect is nothing new here. You only have to wander down Orchard Road for evidence that the Wired Island has for some time had that genetic Book of Life that Bill (Clinton) and Tony (Blair) were getting all excited about yesterday.
"Today we are learning the language in which God created life," enthused U.S. President Clinton at the White House, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair beamed on. Blair, of course, is a Singapore enthusiast. He visited the island a few times while he was opposition leader and said Britain had much to learn from Singapore. Was he trying to tell us something even then? Blair and Clinton also reminded the world yesterday that there were considerable ethical, legal and moral dilemmas associated with the genome project Does that mean the world's legal system will suddenly be inundated with Singapore-style libel suits? Experts worry whether the open standard for genetic mapmaking will lead to a race of superhumans. Now that's something that could interest Singapore. For further information--and those maps--of the Human Genome Project, I suggest you log into two American sites. You can find Celera Genomics at www.celera.com/ (which even has a link to Motley Fool to explain what the HGP means for the Celera share price) and the project itself at www.nhgri.nih.gov/HGP/. Its British counterpart can be found at www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/. I looked and looked for the Singapore Genomics Program site. There is one, a $40 million effort across academia and government on the island. But sadly I couldn't find it. A missing link, so to speak. Ticked off at Asia Buzz? Turned on? Talk back to TIME Write to TIME at mail@web.timeasia.com Search for recent Asia Buzz
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