Even when the hype is discounted, decoding the 3bn chemical "letters" of the genome is likely to have a huge impact on science, medicine and our perception of what it means to be human.

就在人们对宣传将信将疑之际，破译人类基因组30亿个化学“字母”的密码可能对科学、医学以及对人类的观念带来巨大的冲击。