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Human Genome

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR Science Correspondent Richard Harris about the latest discoveries in gene research, announced this week by two competing scientific teams. Scientists have discovered that human beings have fewer genes than first thought -- only about twice as many as worms.

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