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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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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. I saw this, in particular, with the finishing of the human genome,” says Charlie. “At At that time, we thought this would be the holy grail for medicine.

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Nucleome raises £37.5m to shine light on ‘dark genome’

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million ($40 million) first-round financing that will be used to explore so-called ‘dark’ regions of the human genome. M Ventures’ Dr Bauke Anninga said that that the startup has a “differentiated platform technology has the potential to fundamentally shift the way we discover and develop precision medicines.

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Rare Disease Diagnosis: Why Tackling the Genomic Analysis Bottleneck is Key to Advancing Precision Medicine

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For more information on tackling this “genomic analysis bottleneck,” watch this on-demand webinar. HS: Due to the heterogeneity of the rare disease population, there are many relevant gene lists, and the genomic data analysis of these patients covers almost 2,000 different genetic targets.

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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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Why Trusted Research Environments are key to the future of genomics  

Drug Discovery World

Genomics is driving a revolution in drug development and, in the long run, the state of public healthcare. The first draft human genome took a decade to create, and 13 years to complete. A robust environment will contain secure access controls that can prevent and detect misuse of data.

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Why have medicines progressed so little in the last decades?

Drug Discovery World

Dr Pandora Pound , Fellow Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics explores the hinderances of animal testing in pharma and why new technologies such AI, genomics and synthetic biology c an further drug development. Why has there been so little progress in medicine? Why has it been so unproductive?