“DNA genome ‘claim is correct’ ... oh sweet lord no it's not.”
“Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project (HGP) was a 13-year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. During the early years of the HGP, the Wellcome Trust (U.K.) became a major partner; additional contributions came from Japan, France, Germany, China, and others.
Project goals were to identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA, determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA, store this information in databases, improve tools for data analysis, transfer related technologies to the private sector, and address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.”
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresource...ome/home.shtml
This was massive headline news at the time (even I remember it and I know about as much about Science as Rachel does about Geography!), mainly due to the possibilities it opened up for curing hitherto incurable diseases and the involvement of a number of British scientists. Until then, it was known that DNA is a set of codes. What the Genome Project did was to unlock those codes. It also threw up the “designer babies” debate. Lisa never claimed her friend discovered DNA - she merely said that her friend was involved in discovering the human genome.
