When the draft of the human genome was published  in 2000, researchers thought that they had obtained the secret decoder ring for the human body. Armed with the code of 3 billion basepairs of As, Ts, Cs and Gs and the 21,000 protein-coding genes, they hoped to be able to find the genetic scaffolds of life --both in sickness and in health. [More]

Source:
http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=7b0ed7df96d7add1e7b201dddb2869c5