World Health Day: Genome research taking medicine into a new frontier

Big Bang moment

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Mapping the genome can legitimately be thought of as a Big Bang moment in medicine. The Human Genome Project began in 1990, with a goal of mapping the full human genome by 2005. It was ultimately completed by 2003.

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