Quanta Magazine

How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome (2021x18)

Air date: Sep 08, 2021

In 2003, the Human Genome Project announced that it had successfully sequenced the entire human genome. That wasn’t quite true. Nearly 10% of human DNA was still missing from the map. Karen Miga, a geneticist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, co-founded an effort to sequence the missing DNA.