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

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Ben Hargreaves finds that the vast amount of genetic data that exists today could help provide a faster, more targeted way of developing new drug candidates. The logical extension to this kind of approach is treating individual patients, with their individual genetic makeup.

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Estonia National Biobank to sequence 10,000 whole genomes 

Drug Discovery World

The university will also support the European Union’s 1+ Million Genomes initiative, which seeks to boost innovation in healthcare across Europe. Driving new understanding 10,000 whole human genomes will be sequenced and analysed by the Institute of Genomics at the University of Tartu.

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Nutrigenomics: The Future of Personalized Nutrition

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Nutrigenomics is the science studying the relationship between human genome, nutrition and health. In part, the success of the Human Genome Project has also paved a path for the novel concept of nutrigenomics. It further highlights the variation in the genome of patients and identify the sites of metabolic weakness.

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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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