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The pangenome is making personalised medicine more equitable

Pharmaceutical Technology

metres of supercoiled DNA contained within its nucleus. All that DNA is organised into hereditary units called genes, with humans having about 25,000 genes collectively known as the genome. The Human Genome Project was completed in April 2003 when the human reference genome was made public to the world.

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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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Nutrigenomics: The Future of Personalized Nutrition

Roots Analysis

According to a study, around 20,000 genes are present in the human body, all of which interact with the nutrients in the food, either directly or indirectly. Nutrigenomics is the science studying the relationship between human genome, nutrition and health. Similarly, people suffering from lactose intolerance must avoid milk products.

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The future of genomic medicine: can it fulfil its promises?

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Here he gives us a deeper look at how genomic medicine is evolving and the barriers that are preventing it from reaching its full potential. Unsurprisingly, in many respects, the human genome turned out to be a lot more complex than was originally thought. Yet, this can be treated simply by administering a type of vitamin B6. “It’s

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Why a recent advancement is a giant leap for human genomics

Drug Discovery World

The first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome was published 1 April 2022 in a special issue of the journal Science 1. While The Human Genome Project mapped about 92% of the human genome two decades ago, sequencing the last 8% of the genome proved highly challenging.

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Women in Science Who Have Paved the Way Forward in Genetics

XTalks

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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