How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome
Show: Quanta Magazine --> Season: 2021 - Season 2021
AirDate: 9/8/2021
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Overview: In 2003, the Human Genome Project announced that it had successfully sequenced the entire human genome. That wasn’t quite true. Nearly 10% of human DNA was still missing from the map. Karen Miga, a geneticist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, co-founded an effort to sequence the missing DNA.