John Cornyn: “The Human Genome Project has had enormous positive benefits…”

“So back in 1990, Congress authorized something called the Human Genome Project, which was designed to map the human genome, which gave rise to an incredible amount of information about The Human Genome Project has had enormous positive benefits in terms of law enforcement. law enforcement. For example, being able to use a DNA as an essential part of criminal, regular criminal investigations to identify an assailant.” (00:39–00:50)

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