Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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A short film where John Burton, a group leader at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute during the Human Genome Project, talks about how DNA sequencing technologies have changed over time to cope with increasingly large genomes, such as the human genome.

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