The drive for size was powered by a desire to be first to create blockbuster drugs out of the wealth of information arising from the Human Genome Project, completed in June.

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One of the primary goals of The Human Genome project (completed in 2003) was to identify the 20-25, 000 genes in human DNA. The good news, of course, is that they succeeded and today about 84% of those genes remain free of legal encumbrance.

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The Human Genome Project, which set out to read all 2.9 billion bases in human DNA, was completed earlier this year.

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