Experts expect to complete the map and know the full sequence of genes within the next two years.
This achievement is awesome. To put this event in perspective, it is useful to recall how seminal medical advancements changed medical care and its financing over the 20th century. The discovery of antibiotics and penicillin before the second world war dramatically altered the effects of bacterial infections, most of which killed people in earlier decades. As medical protocols changed to incorporate surgery as normal practice for various conditions, the number of hospitals and the size of hospitals grew. Similarly, hospitals changed their focus in the past three decades as technological innovations occurred.