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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

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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”.

Genome 102
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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

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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”.

Genome 80
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CRISPR therapies targeting the next breakthrough in oncology

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The potential to develop treatments with CRISPR gene editing is hinged on its ability to add, delete or replace elements within a target DNA sequence. Cancer is a genetic disease, caused by certain changes in the way that genes control cell function, such as how they grow and divide. Why cancer? The pipeline.