IT TOOK more than a decade of effort, but Monday 26 June 2000 will be
remembered as the day when humankind learned, in a sense, what it is to be
human. Heads of government and Nobel laureates came together to hail the arrival
of a “working draft” of the human genome: the set of genetic instructions which
governs the assembly and function of all human beings.
There may still be some holes to fill in, and the raw genetic information
presented this week may take decades to decipher fully, but for researchers
across the globe Monday was a day for…
