Forward, April 18th, 2003
Forward 04-18-2003 This past Monday, April 14, a group of scientists at the National Institutes of Health in Washington announced the completion of one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken, the mapping of the human genetic code. The announcement came 50 years almost to the day after the structure of DNA was first described in print in the British journal Nature.
The genetic mapping project, a 13-year, $3 billion effort known as the Human Genome Project, isn't really complete, as scientists acknowledge. About 1% of the human genetic map remains to be identified. For that...
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