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Can genetic data be a magic bullet for drug R&D?

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Pharma has used this to begin creating targeted treatments, such as gene therapies , which are able to hone in on gene mutations that cause health issues and eradicate or replace the faulty gene. The information gathered from the project is still providing insights today, a decade later.

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Why genomic healthcare data matters in the development of new therapies 

Drug Discovery World

Genomic healthcare data is critical to identify disease risk, ancestry, traits and response to medicines and aids in the development of new targeted therapies – precision medicines. In April 2003, after its launch in October 1990, the project was completed, generating the first sequence of the human genome.

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