This spring, the National Institutes of Health will start recruiting participants for one of the most ambitious medical projects ever envisioned.
The goal is to find one million people in the United States, from all walks of life and all racial and ethnic groups, who are willing to have their genomes sequenced, and to provide their medical records and regular blood samples.
Image: Blood samples to be processed at the U.K. Biobank. The U.S. is embarking on a similar project called All of Us, but its scope — and costs — are raising challenges. Credit Phil Noble/Reuters
