‘Huge advances in cancer and rare diseases’: 25 years of the human genome – podcast | Science

Bill Clinton has announced one of the most important scientific achievements of humanity for 25 years: the first draft of the human genome. At the time, there was a lot of excitement as to the advantages that these new knowledge would bring, with predictions on the fight against genetic diseases and even cancer. To find out which one of them came to happen and what could be in store in the next two and a half decades, Madeleine Finlay is joined by the editor Ian Sample, and hears Professor Matthew Hurles, Director of Wellcome Sanger Institute