In June 2000, two fiercely competitive teams of scientists made the joint announcement that their labs had achieved one of the greatest prizes in history; the decoding of the human genome. In this program, NOVA documents the race to unravel our genetic instruction book and its profound implications for medicine and human health. Hailed as the "moonshot" of biology, the decoding of the genome has the potential to effect the science world's approach to disease, diagnoses, cures, and could possibly give foresight into the health prospects and personality traits of any individual whose DNA is tested.