Human Genome Project

Rough Map of Human Genome Completed

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, July 6th, 2000

Rival teams of scientists have completed the first rough map of the human genetic code after a 10-year race that cost millions of dollars and went down to the wire.

The publicly funded Human Genome Project and the private Celera Genomics Corp. scheduled press conferences on June 26 to announce they have decoded the 3.1 billion sub-units of DNA, the chemical "letters" that make up the recipe of human life. The discovery is seen as one of history's great scientific milestones, the biological equivalent of the moon landing.

"It's a giant resource," said James D. Watson, the scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology for his work in discovering...

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