The Almanac

April 14

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 2003

    The Human Genome Project is completed

    Scientists announced the finished sequence of the human genome, a near-complete reading of all three billion letters of our DNA, two years ahead of schedule. It gave medicine a lasting reference for how the human body is built and how it can go wrong.

    Source: Wikipedia

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