National Human Genome Research Institute . Established in 1989 by the National Institutes of Health as part of the international effort to identify all the genes in the human genome. This site includes a glossary of genetic terms and the latest news on the Human Genome Project. Visit the DNA Learning Center and navigate a worthwhile genetics primer . Visit the Web site of the National Institutes of Health , a world-renowned biomedical research center that is part of the Public Health Service .
Research is devoted to helping prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat diseases and disabilities.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 . Read the biographies of James Dewey Watson and Francis Harry Compton Crick . The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 . Read Gilbert's autobiography . Click here for a special offer.