Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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A short film where Dr. Ewan Birney, Joint Associate Director and Senior Scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), talks about the surprise Human Genome Project scientists had when they first found out the number of protein-coding genes in the human genome was much lower than they had originally predicted.

Find out more about the Human Genome Project on our website: yourgenome.org/theme/the-human-genome-project