The human genome project

Abstract

The human genome project is one of the most ambitious human endeavors of recent history and whatever its outcome, the world is not likely to be the same again after its completion. The output of the program and others like it in the biological sciences that are unraveling the genetic code of human and other organisms are likely to lead to a new way of understanding biology and modulating it either in the form of prevention ofdiseases, understanding the processes underlying the development, progress, resolution, and treatment of disease processes. The impact is no less profound in the other areas of biology including environment management, development of new chemical and lately the use of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as the building blocks of the CPU of future computers.