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Human Genome Project
An international effort to read and decode the entire genetic information of a human being.
Articles using this Glossary Item
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Human genome sequenced for $50,000 with third generation technology |
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Third-generation 'single-molecule' technology has been used for the first time to read a human genome sequence. Professor Stephen Quake, from Stanford University, California, US, is only the eighth person whose genome has been published since the first breakthroughs were made in 2000. When this latest generation of technology is perfected the hope is that it will bring us one step closer to ‘the $1000 genome' that will open the door to personalised medical treatme...[Read More] |
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Events using this Glossary Item
| How User-Led Innovation in Bioinformatics Stands to Facilitate Civic Translational Science |
| 01 July 2009 1pm-2.30pm Welsh e-Science Access Grid Node (Queens Building, 5 The Parade, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK) and InfoLab Access Grid Node (Room C60B, InfoLab21, South Drive, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 4WA, UK) |
| A seminar on civic translational science and the broader open-source revolution in biotechnology...[Read More] |
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