A Decade of Advances Since the Human Genome Project

Despite breakthroughs in technology and medicine, there’s still a lot of work ahead for understanding and using the human genome.

This Sunday, the National Institutes of Health will celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project. Since the end of the 13-year and $3-billion effort to determine the sequence of a human genome (a mosaic of genomes from several people in this case), there have been some impressive advances in technology and biological understanding and the dawn of a new branch of medicine: medical genomics