Resumen de Scrapheap challenge
It was a discovery that threatened to overturn everything people thought about what makes them human. At the dawn of the new millennium, two rival teams were vying to be the first to sequence the human genome. Their findings, published in February 2001, made headlines around the world. Back-of-the-envelope calculations had suggested that to account for the sheer complexity of human biology, their genome should contain roughly 100,000 genes. The estimate was wildly off. Both groups put the actual figure at around 30,000. They now think it is even fewer--just 20,000 or so. Here, Barras discusses making human.
