In the 90s, the Human Genome Project cost billions of dollars and took over 10 years.
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So where did they get a lot of the DNA for the Human Genome Project?
Schools, the kids, in the name of science, without parental knowledge and no legal representation. They freely signed the paper and submitted their DNA.