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Complete Human Genome
April 21 , 2023
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- The Human Genome Project announced that they had completed the first human genome in 2003.
- For the first time, the DNA blueprint of human life was unlocked.
- But they weren’t actually able to put together all the genetic information in the genome.
- There were gaps: unfilled, often repetitive regions that were too confusing to piece together.
- With advancements in technology that could handle these repetitive sequences, scientists finally filled those gaps in May 2021.
- The first end-to-end human genome was officially published on March 31, 2022.
- This year, for the first time, the entire genome of a single human being – a man named Leon Peshkin – is due to be released.
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