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ERIC LANDER: My name's Eric Lander, and I'm going to be teaching MIT's
7.00x, Introduction to Biology, the Secret of Life.
25 years ago, we began to think about sequencing the human genome.
At the time, it seemed possible.
BILL CLINTON: We're here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of
the entire human genome.
Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever
produced by humankind.
ERIC LANDER: When we the Human Genome Project we thought it was remarkable.
But we didn't know the half of it.
What's happened since then is just mind-blowing.
It's become possible to sequence DNA a 1 million times faster and cheaper
than we could before.
We can now read out the secrets of cancer, of diabetes, of heart disease,
of Alzheimer's disease.
This is one of the most important revolutions in science.
It's about our health.
It's about our world.
Everybody needs to know about biology.
In 7.00x we're going to teach you the basics of biology, going all the way
back to Mendel and all the way up to techniques invented just last week.
The course is going to be an opportunity to use cutting-edge tools
from the forefront of genomics in a introductory biology course.
Science is about asking deep fundamental questions and teasing the
answers out of nature.
This course is designed for anyone.
The prerequisites are none.
You just need an interest and a curiosity in learning about one of the
greatest scientific stories ever told.
I have never been more excited about the opportunity for all of us around
the world to talk together about this.
Everybody should know the secret of life.