HENRY

Appropriate gifts are always hard to find - just what do you get the guy who discovered the structure of DNA? A gift basket? A book voucher? or -

“When we began the Human Genome Project, we anticipated it would take 15 years to sequence the 3 billion base pairs and identify all the genes,” said Gibbs. “We completed it in 13 years in 2003 – coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the publication of the work of Watson and Dr. Francis Crick that described the double helix. Today, we give James Watson a DVD containing his personal genome – a project completed in only two months. It demonstrates how far the sequencing technology has come in a short time.”

Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Simon Greenhill