Science
The human genome at 20: how biology’s most-hyped breakthrough led to anticlimax and arrests – The Conversation UK
The achievement didn’t live up to the hype, but it has illuminated new areas of ‘genetic dark matter’.
When President Bill Clinton took to a White House lectern 20 years ago to announce that the human genome sequence had been completed, he hailed the breakthrough as the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind. The scientific achievement was placed on par with the moon landings.
It was hoped that having access to the sequence would transform our understanding of human disease within 20 years, leading to better treatment, detection and prevention. The famous journal article that…
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