Public and private sequencing efforts jointly announced a first draft of the human genome. The discussion describes that draft as a foundation for understanding hereditary instructions and developing new approaches to medicine.
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1:53:27Y2K era 2000 first draft of the human genome sequenced 23 and me eat your heart out >> yes um we sequenced the human genome this is a pretty big deal. Francis Collins, he was representing the human genome project which was funded by the government and at the same time they were competing against Craig Venttor at Salera Genomics cuz he figured well I could just do it. Um they jointly announced the completion of the first draft of the human genome. Basically Bill Clinton like brought them together to the White House and was like all right truce guys you both won like let's stop. Um, and it's a historic milestone. Provided a biochemical map of human
1:54:08heredit hereditary instructions. Revolutionized medical science. This is how we get personalized medicine. All sorts of really cool stuff. >> Really foundational building block