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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

pharmaphorum

Charlie has spent more than 26 years working on the human genome – 22 of which were spent at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, helping to assemble the human genome and trying to understand the function of the genes contained within it. Everything the 100,000 Genomes Project does has to be rubber-stamped by the patients”.

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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

pharmaphorum

Charlie has spent more than 26 years working on the human genome – 22 of which were spent at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, helping to assemble the human genome and trying to understand the function of the genes contained within it. Everything the 100,000 Genomes Project does has to be rubber-stamped by the patients”.

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Women in Science Who Have Paved the Way Forward in Genetics

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The Human Genome Project recently marked 20 years since the publication of the first full sets of human genomic sequences, an endeavor that spanned well over a decade. Today, new next-generation sequencing technologies allow for the sequencing of complex genomes within just a day or two.

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