{"id":123367,"date":"2021-06-03T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/scientists-say-theyve-finally-sequenced-the-entire-human-genome-yes-all-of-it"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:23:26","slug":"scientists-say-theyve-finally-sequenced-the-entire-human-genome-yes-all-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/scientists-say-theyve-finally-sequenced-the-entire-human-genome-yes-all-of-it","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say They\u2019ve Finally Sequenced the Entire Human Genome. Yes, All of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyve-finally-sequenced-the-entire-human-genome-yes-all-of-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a technological triumph.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Twenty-one years ago, researchers announced the first \u201cdraft\u201d of sequencing the complete human genome. It was a monumental achievement, but the sequence was still missing about 8 percent of the genome. Now, scientists working together around the world say they\u2019ve finally filled in that reclusive 8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>If their work holds up to peer review and it turns out they really did sequence and assemble the human genome in its entirety, gaps and all, it could change the future of medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a technological triumph. Twenty-one years ago, researchers announced the first \u201cdraft\u201d of sequencing the complete human genome. It was a monumental achievement, but the sequence was still missing about 8 percent of the genome. Now, scientists working together around the world say they\u2019ve finally filled in that reclusive 8 percent. If their work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}