The Human Genome Project: How it changed biology forever

Built up over evolutionary eons, it featured 46 spiralling, ladder-like structures, some three billion pieces, and it took thousands of scientists working around the globe 13 years to complete.

But that, it turned out, was the easy part.

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The Human Genome Project — which was presented in its final form 10 years ago this month — provided a map of mankind’s DNA. But it also opened up a Pandora’s box of boggling complexity in the biological sciences and medicine that will take decades more to unravel.