Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta Platforms, was six years old in 1990 when the Human Genome Project launched. That project, a multibillion-dollar international effort led by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy, resulted in the first sequencing of the human genetic code. President Bill Clinton described the achievement in 2000 as learning the language in which God created life. Recently, a scientific collaboration was compared to that earlier achievement at a reception hosted by Biohub, the primary philanthropic organization.
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