Thanks again to all that initial work. And thanks to the work of Dr. Collins and his colleagues at NIH. We can now sequence the human genome at a fraction of the cost that it required, and in a shorter timeframe.
Harkin acknowledges the advancements in genome sequencing due to NIH's efforts.
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