Deciphering Nature's Alphabet - 4. Imagining the Genome
Channel: National Human Genome Research Institute
Date: 2014-04-18

This film describes the launch of the Human Genome Project, how the idea emerged from the growing genetic engineering capacity, the technologies, politics and finances of genomics. Key interviews: Lee Hood, Sen. Pete Domenici, Robert Sinsheimer and Patricia King. 

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, State of the Art, Inc. (SOTA) developed this film for the National Human Genome Research Institute.  The film was screened as interstitial material, bracketed by lectures from key scientists at the Scientific Symposium on April 14-15, 2003.

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