Genetics Unzipped: The Past, Present and Future of the Human Genome Project (BONUS EPISODE)

I think there was concerns about it being a big project and being big science and team science that, you know, worked well for Apollo missions, that worked well in physics and chemistry, but you know, biomedical researchers up until that point, never did big science projects. They were just unheard of.

Dr Eric Green

Earlier this week was DNA Day, which this year marks both the 20th anniversary of the Human Genome Project’s completion and the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix. To celebrate, we are rereleasing an episode from Series 3, when Kat interviewed the director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute, Dr Eric Green about his work on the Human Genome Project from its very inception.

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