Iowa State Promotes Gardens for Victory

Jo Ann Reeves discusses the program of the Horticulture Department in promoting victory gardens throughout Iow

Thoughtful Reading

Jo Ann Reeves reviews the thoughts presented in current philosophy books available in librar

The Iowa Homemaker vol.23, no.14

Winter in Iowa, page 2 Keeping Up With Today, Mary Elizabeth Lush, page 2 Presenting Martha Duncan, D. Jean Merrill, page 3 Students Create Furniture, Marjorie Lund, page 4 Describe Food in South Pacific, Gertrud Ortgies, page 5 Vicky Previews a New Year, Josephine Ahern, page 6 Teaches Homemaking in India, Mrs. Edgar Vestal, page 7 What’s New in Home Economics, Marilyn Mitchell, page 8 Thoughtful Reading, Jo Ann Reeves, page 10 Across Alumnae Desks, Harriet Keen, page 12 Alum Chooses Food Publicity, Rowena Lincoln, page 14 Betty Heileman Feeds Trainees, Ann Turner, page 1

The Iowa Homemaker vol.21, no.9

Keeping Up With Today, Marilyn Clayton, page 2 Need for Homemaking Education, Lois Stewart, page 3 Uniforms Alter Campus Co-Etiquette, Joan Miller, page 5 Keynotes Furnishings, Interview, Misses Fisher, O’Bryan, page 6 For a Vacation With Pay, Pat O’Connell, page 8 A Graduate Describes Food Publicity, Winnifred Cannon, page 9 Shipyards Sponsor Child Care Centers, Jeanne O’Connor, page 10 Silhouette for Spring, Ruth Midgorden, page 11 What’s New in Home Economics, Mildred Krogh, page 12 Iowa State Promotes Gardens for Victory, Jo Ann Reeves, page 14 Do You Manage Your Time Efficiently?, Marian Loofe, page 15 Dietitians to the Front, Lorraine Berger, page 16 Across Alumnae Desks, Harriet Keen, page 18 Notions Corner, page 20 Efficiency in Food Preparation, Norma Dale, page 21 Alums in the News, Patricia Maddex, page 2

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead