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The Human Genome Can Teach Us a Lot About Ourselves, Says This Scientist

A genome is a set of instructions – genes – for building a life form. Every cell in our bodies contains a complete copy of those instructions. It’s 20 years since the Human Genome Project finished its work generating the first sequence of the human genome but there is still much to discover.

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