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Why genomic healthcare data matters in the development of new therapies 

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7 The collaboration will see Children’s Mercy Kansas City use PacBio’s Sequel IIe system in the study of genetic disease and the research will apply direct methylation detection and Iso-Seq full-length RNA sequencing. Many of these genes are related to inherited forms of cancer and heart conditions. .

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Alnylam finds belly fat gene and drug target in UK Biobank study

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Alnylam Pharma has made a name for itself, developing gene-silencing therapies for rare disorders, but its latest discovery could take it into a much larger category – metabolic and cardiovascular disease. Transgenic mice in which the gene has been deleted have improved control of blood glucose and insulin sensitivity.