On June 26, 2000, President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair jointly announced that researchers had completed the first draft of the human genome, a map that spelled out the three billion letters of the genetic code. "Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind," said Clinton. Blair was equally effusive. "Let us be in no doubt about what we are witnessing today-a revolution in medical science whose implications far surpass even the discovery of antibiotics, the first great technological triumph of the 21st century," said Blair.

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