Both the Senate and the House of Representatives declared April 25 DNA Day, 50 years after the publication of Watson, Crick, and Wilkins' discovery, and the month of April as Human Genome Month.
The Human Genome Project finalized their research project two years ahead of schedule.
Originally referred to as the Office of Human Genome Research in The Office of the Director, the National Human Genome Research Institute began carrying out the role of the NIH in the Human Genome Project.
Biologists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins published their academic paper in the scientific journal, Nature, presenting their findings on DNA's double-helix structure.
