[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16180-16181]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     CONGRATULATING BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND RICE UNIVERSITY

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I am very excited today to congratulate 
the researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University 
in my hometown of Houston.
  On Monday, they announced an important discovery about the structure 
of human genetic material, an advance that one day could enable 
scientists to fix genetic defects that lead to disease. This was in the 
journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The 
authors included experts from Stanford, the Broad Institute of MIT and 
Harvard, who brought about this particular research, described the 
process through which a 6-foot-long string of human DNA folds and 
organizes itself.
  The main excitement about this is that to the many children, to the 
many young people, to the many families who suffer the loss of a child 
through a deadly disease, we now have research that may alter that 
process and impact, if you will, the DNA that results in diseases that 
cause the death of our children.
  Let me congratulate Baylor and Rice University for this great 
success, and we look forward to saving lives from Houston, Texas.

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