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Human Genome Anniversary

Monday, February 7th, 2011

posted by: acarr

I was reading Science Magazine today (Feb 4 issue), and found a series of articles on the 10th anniversary of sequencing the Human genome (year 2001). If you are interested in finding out more about yourself (that is, molecularly), check out the series.

http://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/genomeanniversary/

or read the essay:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6017/546.1.full.pdf

(One article I read showcased an artist that used the four DNA base pairs (adenine, cytosine, thymine and guanine) to create art.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6017/548.2.full

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