Human Genome Project marks 10 years
Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 20:30
in Biology & Nature
By Tanya Lewis, LiveScienceThis month marks the 10-year anniversary of the Human Genome Project, a 13-year international effort to determine the sequence of the 3 billion "letters" in a human being's DNA.The $3 billion project, led by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, began in 1990 and was completed on April 14, 2003. In the decade since then, scientists have...