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Article: First working draft of human genome unveiled June 26; researchers say 99% of human genetic code assembled.(Brief Article)
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- Transplant News
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- June 30, 2000
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Two competing teams of scientists announced June 26 that they had completed the first working draft of the human genome-nature's blueprint for creating and sustaining life-after a 10-year, multibillion dollar public and private effort that has been called biology's version of splitting the atom.
"Almost half of the genome is in finished or near-finished form," reported Francis Collins, PhD, director of the publicly funded Human Genome Project (HGP) of the National Institutes of Health. "We have assembled 3.12 billion letters-99% of the genetic code," said J. Craig Venter, President of the biotech company Celera Genomics of Rockville, MD.
Scientists do ...