Have you wondered if there have been human projects? Well there has, a very big one, The Human Genome Project. It has made more understandings of genes, DNA and many more.
Well what is it. The Human Genome Project is a 15-year effort coordinated by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health to search and identify the location and makeup of each of the 80,000 genes in human DNA. This knowledge will allow doctors to understand genes and treat diseases and clone humans. The Human Genome Project is morally correct. Some of the potential negatives of the project include: doctors having to change their practice, needing to patient human genes which would be impersonal, and the question as to where do we draw the line in scientific advancement. Some of the positive benefits include: perfect pro-creation and the ability to reassemble bad genes that cause diseases into perfectly functional genes. Because the eventual decision to continue the Human Genome Project is based on the moral standing of our society, society should make the final decision. Therefore education on the topic is critical to fully understand the significance of this fairly new advancement in scientific knowledge.
The Human Genome Project formally began on October 1990 and was successfully completed on April 14, 2003.
There have been three scientists that have worked one it. The three are Dr. David Botstein, director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University; Dr. Eric Lander, president and director of the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard; and Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health.
The results of the Human Genome Project included a better understanding of the roles genes play in the human body. Scientists learned that there were fewer genes than originally believed that make up the human genome. They were able to learn that all genes do not have one specific role, as was previously believed, but can actually make up to three proteins. Understanding the roles and numbers of genes provides important information for exploring the causes of and cures for specific diseases.