THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT

The humangenome project

and James Watson

START

Index

3. The countries

1. Introduction

4. Outcomes

2. The project

1. Introduction

• Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962
• He discovered the structure of Nucleic Acids
• He worked with Francis Crick

2. The Human Genome Project

• From 1990 to 2023
• International scientific research
• Scientists mapped and sequenced the entire human genome

The logo of the Human Genome Project

3. The countries involved

• USA
• UK
• France
• Germany
• China
• Japan

The National Institutes of Health

4. Outcomes

• The entire human genoma has been decodified
• It helped study viruses and mutations
• Development in agriculture

Timeline of the Human Genome Project

Start

1990

92 %

2003

0.3% remaining

2021

End of the project

2023

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