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Scientists Decode Human Genome's Instruction Manual

from the Guardian (U.K.)

Almost a decade after the human genome project lay bare the building blocks of life, scientists have figured out how they work together to create a living person.

The genome project identified about 25,000 genes that are needed to make a healthy human being, but said nothing about how they combine to produce everything from hearts and minds to legs and livers.

Now researchers in California have published what is effectively the first manual to show how genes are orchestrated inside cells--a milestone that promises to revolutionise scientists' understanding of human development and how it can sometimes go wrong.