The 220 employees have a job to finish, one that could change the way diseases are detected and treated in the future.
Much more work needs to be done.
Dr. Scherer makes the analogy of an incomplete library to describe the working draft. As a result, the genes that are there may code for multiple proteins. This means that regulation becomes more important since there are fewer genes doing several tasks. Research assistant Babajide Adio separates human DNA from other components in its cellular packaging. This is the final step of DNA isolation and purification.