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Genomic projects exploit scale as clinical applications play catch-up

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The group analysed 12,222 samples collected through whole genome sequencing efforts of the UK National Health Service as part of the 100,000 Genomes Project and added further data on 6,418 cancers from the International Cancer Genome Consortium and the Hartwig Medical Foundation. Both teams had the same underlying goal.

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The pangenome is making personalised medicine more equitable

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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 Launched in October 1990, The Human Genome Project sought to sequence the entire human genome using a method called Sanger sequencing.

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

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Pharma has used this to begin creating targeted treatments, such as gene therapies , which are able to hone in on gene mutations that cause health issues and eradicate or replace the faulty gene. The information gathered from the project is still providing insights today, a decade later.

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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”.

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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”.

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A history of blood cancer treatment

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Although early accounts of an illness akin to leukaemia can be traced back to Ancient Greece, the first official description of blood cancer didn’t appear until 1832, when British pathologist and pioneer of preventative medicine Thomas Hodgkin used the controversial concept of micrology to identify the abnormalities in the lymphatic system.