The European Union just granted 1.2 billion euro to the Human Brain Project—a sort of Human Genome Project for the brain.
The Human Genome Project began not with a question, but an answer that had to be substantiated in reverse.
The cost of the Human Genome Project, $3.8 billion, far exceeded the initial round of funding for the BRAIN initiative.
That reality traces back to the Human Genome Project, which officially wrapped up one decade ago, in 2003.
Or take the Human Genome Project as another stellar example of what medical research can accomplish.
My old boss, T. Brooks Ellis, the director of the Human Genome Project.
Federal dollars helped produce such scientific breakthroughs as the Human Genome Project.
The Human Genome Project is now decoding the genetic mysteries of life.
Human Genome Project n.
An international research effort to map and identify the role of all genes in the human genome.
| Human Genome Project An international scientific research project designed to study and identify all of the genes in the human genome, to determine the base-pair sequences in human DNA, and to store this information in computer databases. The Human Genome Project began in the United States in 1990 and was completed in 2003. |
A worldwide project, completed in 2000, to determine the precise arrangement of nucleotides in human DNA (see DNA sequencing).
