司法是人权的有力保障

The draft of the human genome sequence was released in 2001, an im- portant milestone in the process of acquiring genetic infor- mation on human beings. Together with the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program, the ambitious Human Genome Project is known as one of the three great projects in the history of human science. Differing from the former two projects, which focused on the atomic bomb and explora- tion of outer space, respectively, the Human Genome Project focused on human beings. This is a great shift. Thanks to progress in biotechnology and medical technology, people real- ized the prospect of greatly expanding life expectancy to more than 55 years in the second half of the 20th Century.

New Biotechnology Challenges to Human Rights