The Human Genome Project has already aided scientists in discovering a mutation that causes a deadly type of skin cancer and accelerated the search for genes involved in diabetes, leukemia and childhood eczema.

• 人类基因工程已经帮助科学家们发现了一种致命皮肤癌的突变原因，并加速了人类对糖尿病，白血病和小孩湿疹的基因研究。