The Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project is a 13-year project started in 1990 and coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. The project originally was planned to last 15 years, but rapid technological advances have accelerated the expected completion date to 2003. Project goals are to ·identify all the approximate 30,000 genes in human DNA, ·determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA, ·store …showed first 75 words of 393 total…

…showed last 75 words of 393 total…applications of genome research include molecular medicine, microbial genomics, risk assessment, bioarchaeology, anthropology, evolution, and human migration, DNA forensics (identification) and agriculture, livestock breeding, and bioprocessing. I think that insurers should not have access to the information but if people can be cured early then this information should be available to medical advisors. I feel it is important for an individual not to feel excluded from others by their information being made public to others.