{"id":314,"date":"2006-05-21T23:29:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-24T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:38:59","slug":"the-human-genome-project-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/314\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Genome Project completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"inline left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image preview\" title=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.thefazz.com\/me\/files\/images\/_40060641_dna_bbc_203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"159\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/4994088.stm\">read on the web<\/a> that the final chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_genome_project\">Human Genome Project<\/a> has been published.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The international Human Genome Project &#8211; often described as the &#8220;book of life&#8221; &#8211; was launched with the aim of finding and detailing the genes in our cells that drive all the body&#8217;s biochemical reactions.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists envisage using this information to diagnose illnesses and to develop new medical therapies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The benefits of having what is effectively an encyclopedia of the human blueprint is the possibility of finding cures and prevention for illnesses such as cancer, Parkinson&#8217;s and Alzheimer&#8217;s diseases etc.<\/p>\n<p>The completion of HGP marks a new chapter in mankind&#8217;s medical progress. The project took about 20 years involving a web of scientists around the world to catalog the human DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye out for developments on the medical front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"inline left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.thefazz.com\/me\/files\/images\/_40060641_dna_bbc_203.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"image preview\" height=\"159\" width=\"203\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/4994088.stm\">read on the web<\/a> that the final chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_genome_project\">Human Genome Project<\/a> has been published. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe international Human Genome Project &#8211; often described as the &#8220;book of life&#8221; &#8211; was launched with the aim of finding and detailing the genes in our cells that drive all the body&#8217;s biochemical reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[1703,1717,1729,1734],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-innovation","tag-science","tag-scifi","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20154,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/20154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}