It’s only been 13 years since scientists at National Human Genome Research Institute finished sequencing the human genome, but now another group of American scientists are calling for a 10-year project aimed at creating their own human genomes from scratch.
The proposal for the project, known as the ‘Human Genome Project—Write’, was published in Science last Thursday and announced the group’s intention to launch the project this year with the $100-million it will secure in funding. As argued in the paper written by 26 prominent geneticists, HGP-Write is the logical continuation of the Human Genome Project, which successfully sequenced 99.9 percent of all the DNA humans have in common, otherwise known as the human genome.

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