[HTML][HTML] Medical and societal consequences of the human genome project

FS Collins - New England Journal of Medicine, 1999 - Mass Medical Soc
FS Collins
New England Journal of Medicine, 1999Mass Medical Soc
The history of biology was forever altered a decade ago by the bold decision to launch a
research program that would characterize in ultimate detail the complete set of genetic
instructions of the human being. The idea captured the public imagination, perhaps less in
the manner of America's wars on cancer and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome than
in the manner of the great expeditions—those of Lewis and Clark, Sir Edmund Hillary, and
even Neil Armstrong. Scientists wanted to map the human genetic terrain, knowing it would …
The history of biology was forever altered a decade ago by the bold decision to launch a research program that would characterize in ultimate detail the complete set of genetic instructions of the human being. The idea captured the public imagination, perhaps less in the manner of America's wars on cancer and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome than in the manner of the great expeditions — those of Lewis and Clark, Sir Edmund Hillary, and even Neil Armstrong. Scientists wanted to map the human genetic terrain, knowing it would lead them to previously unimaginable insights, and from there to the common . . .
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