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Happy birthday to the Human Genome Project

October 1, 2018

On October 1st, 1990, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Energy announced the launch of the Human Genome Project, an attempt to map all 3 billion base pairs in the human genome first scheduled to be completed by 2005. Eleven years and $2.7 billion later, the Human Genome Project published in... Read More

From the Human Genome to the Genome for Humanity – Color

May 6, 2018

Fifteen years ago, the Human Genome Project announced the completion of the first human genome. This was a moon landing scale endeavor that took billions of dollars in combined public and private investment — to sequence one single human... Read More
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