90th Anniversary Issue: 2000s
Genomics and other highlights, 2000–2011
Reading genomes
When a private company and a government project both published the genetic instruction book for human beings in 2001, the text was “as striking for what we don’t see as for what we do,” Science News reported (2/17/01, p. 100). Only a third as many genes were found as had been expected (color-coded DNA analysis shown).