Happy Birthday, Genome
This June marks 10 years since two independent teams of geneticists unveiled the first draft of the human genome.After years of bitter rivalry, Francis Collins, then the director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute and Craig Venter together made the announcement from the East Room of the White House.Then-president Bill Clinton predicted that the feat, which cost billions of dollars and took more than a decade, would "revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases."We're clearly not there yet. So what exactly have we gained from knowing the sequence of 3 billion base pairs?Read more at...SFARI, March 2010.