Known as The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), the international endeavour is expected to take ten years.
Archaeologists have uncovered new writings by Hippocrates, the famed 'father of Western medicine'.
Clinical trials have shown that engineered 'memory t-cells' can act as a long-term cancer vaccine.
Researchers have developed a type of chocolate that is so healthy that it can be eaten as medicine.
Centipede venom has been identified as having the potential to provide a number of medicinal benefits.
Genome scientist J. Craig Venter believes that we will soon be able to design and 'print' organisms.