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Tom Harkin: Thanks again to all that initial work. And thanks to the work of Dr. Collins and his colleagues at NIH. We can now…

On the recordApril 1, 2014
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.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin acknowledges the advancements in genome sequencing due to NIH's efforts.

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