Barbara Wold: How Does the Human Genome Work?

Determining the DNA sequence of a reference human genome, as biologists of the Human Genome Project did in 2003, did not tell us how our genome works. The big challenge is to bring that genome sequence to life. The past five years have provided an unexpectedly fast and wild ride for scientists trying to break the regulatory code we know is present in the genome. We have harnessed dramatic improvements in DNA sequencing technology to now ask how each of our 25,000 human genes works differently in health and in disease.

Barbara J. Wold is Bren Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of the Beckman Institute at Caltech.

Barbara Wold

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