Theoretical considerations on the draft human genome

This entry serves to socialize some theoretical considerations about the draft human genome, or what some have called "Operation Human Genome" to refer to the most ambitious global-scale project of this millennium..

Historically, one of the most recurrent concerns of the scientific community is to be able to access genetic sequencing at the DNA level and erase the most deadly diseases that affect human beings, hence, for more than three decades, sequencing the genome of a species and, specifically, of the human species has been a major challenge.

Thus, for the scientific community the quest to understand how our genes work began in earnest in the mid-19th century when a biologist and monk named Gregor Mendel came to a startling conclusion about plant traits.

Gregor Mendel's experiments partly motivated the realization of the Human Genome Project, whose main objective is to know the sequence of human DNA, decipher all its functionalities, i.e. to know all the human genes, locate them in the genome and discover the segments that cause the most deadly diseases.

Discovering the segments that cause the most deadly diseases in the sequencing of our DNA, over the last three decades, has accumulated satisfactory results to the point of having achieved the completion of the first draft of the human book of life.

The first draft of the human book of life has "molecular scissors" that are biotechnological tools with the potential to cut segments of DNA that cause diseases in us humans, and even though the project is still in the experimental phase, its results give hope to mankind.

➊ International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Link

➋ Leroy H The Human Genome Project: big science transforms biology and medicine. Link

➌ Gardiner R The Human Genome Project: the next decade. Link