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Personal Genome Project Seeks 100,000 DNA Donors
Monday, June 30th, 2008

George Church of Harvard Medical School hopes to recruit 100,000 people and sequence the DNA of each and every one. With that many genomes, combined with personal information, Church believes we’ll have a chance of getting at the root causes of common diseases and figuring out how to prevent them. Watch the video…

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