This week, a new class of antibiotics for deadly bugs, the first for a long time.

The last new class of antibiotics developed for gram negatives actually was discovered in the

1960s and came to the market in the early 1980s. And from one human genome to a thousand and beyond.

I don't think 25 years ago any of us would have predicted

that the pace of progress would have been as dramatic as it has been.

Plus why researchers are interested in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

This is the Nature Podcast for October 1st, 2015. I'm Kerry Smith.

And I'm Adam Levy.

25 years ago this week, the Human Genome Project began. Adam's been taking a look at what's

happened in genomics ever since. The Human Genome project is biology's equivalent to the moon landings.

It took thousands of scientists over a decade to read the entire sequence of base pairs in

a human genome, transcribing our genetic code for the first time.

But it had the potential to revolutionize medicine.

You wouldn't really want to have somebody working on your car to make a car repair without

fundamentally knowing how the car is put together. This is Eric Green, who worked on the

Human Genome Project throughout its 13-year life and is now director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute.

And yet the way we really practice medicine, you know, certainly before the genome project began,

was by not totally understanding the human body at a blueprint level.

Today, Eric explains, it's easy to forget what a challenge this posed.

So I think from the outside looking in, there was a lot of concern. Maybe it would siphon money

away from other research and maybe it was going to be a sort of a big project that would

maybe not be successful. On the inside, I can tell you there was great motivation.

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