Twenty years ago, when researchers from the Human Genome Project announced that they had completed the first-ever sequence of an entire set of human DNA, the discovery was heralded as comparable to "splitting the atom or going to the moon." The announcement forever transformed the fields of genomics, biology, and medicine, allowing researchers to investigate more complex questions and seek more complicated answers related to the human body and how to treat disease.
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