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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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COSMIC database matches drugs to cancer mutations

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The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database, operated by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, grew out of the work of the Cancer Genome Project and has been gathering data on mutations associated with specific cancers for almost 17 years.

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New research across its oncology portfolio at the virtual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2021

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and European Union (EU) approvals, will also be presented, including long-term outcomes in patients with TRK fusion cancer receiving larotrectinib and data from the 100,000 Genomes Project analyzing the prognostic factor for survival for patients with tumors that harbor a neurotrophic receptor tyrosine kinase ( NTRK ) gene fusion.

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Nutrigenomics: The Future of Personalized Nutrition

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Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies have led to significant developments in healthcare-focused research on precision medicine and diagnostics. 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.

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Unlocking disease treatment with large-scale research

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A few decades ago, gathering genetic data on the scale of the 100,000 Genomes Project would have been unthinkable – it was only in 2003 that the entire human genome was mapped. This is the way in which the UK’s Our Future Health research programme aims to provide a breakthrough in healthcare and medicine.