Human Genome Project
- Created by: Natasha Granville
- Created on: 10-05-16 17:13
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- Human Genome Project
- international project
- to order all of the base pairs of the human genome
- completed in 2003
- after 13 years of work
- scientists from 18 different countries worked together
- implications
- improved testing for genetic disorders
- new treatments and cures
- e.g. gene therapy
- new ways of looking at changes in the human genome over time
- showing how humans have evolved
- personalised medicines
- work with a particular genome
- target diseases more effectively and with fewer side effects
- international project
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