Times Online - The human genome ten years on: time to take stock

Ten years ago this June, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair announced that the first draft of the human genome had been completed by scientists. The politicians were a tad premature -- the draft was not published until 2001, the "finished" genome sequence took several more years, and a few small segments are still unread. But the achievement remains a huge landmark in self-knowledge for our species, and an anniversary that deserves the great attention it is certain to get.

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