Genome Research

Genome Research

In 1990, an international consortium of researchers, lead by the United States National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy, set out to understand human beings at a molecular level. Scientific advancement in the previous two decades made it possible to sequence the DNA of an organism and thus study its genome, the chemical code that distinguishes one organism from another. Such research holds the key to understanding biology at its most fundamental level. In April 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed.

SCIENTISTS SPEAKING ON GENOME RESEARCH
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