10 Years on, ‘The Genome Revolution Is Only Just Beginning’
- By Brandon Keim
- March 31, 2010 |
- 2:13 pm |
- Categories: Genetics
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Almost 10 years after the celebrated completion of the human genome’s first draft, the expected revolution in medicine and research has only partly come to pass.
The human genome’s sequencing has profoundly influenced basic research and the refinement of genome-reading tools. But those advances have had only limited medical impacts.
“The promise of a revolution in human health remains quite real,” wrote Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, in an essay published March 31 in Nature. “Those who somehow expected dramatic results overnight may be disappointed.”
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