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World Service,16 Jan 2002,24 mins

Genetics And The Human Genome

Health Matters

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The human genome project and its implications. The programme examines the human genome mapping project which discovered that human beings are far simpler, genetically, than we at first thought. Could this change our views on animal research, now that it appears we share so many genes with many animals.

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