Genomics: The future of medicine

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A round up of genomics research is presented in this Telegraph anthology of recent articles from international news sources. Millions of dollars are being funneled into a project to "unlock"  DNA, personal genomics could become second nature, and challenges that have held up the science of genomics and its applications are presented.

Rare disorders may be at play in common illnesses, said David Dimmock, a pediatric geneticist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wis., reported in an article in New Scientist. "Most common diseases are merely a collection of rare diseases that happen to have the same end point."

In other news, Medical institutions are working to streamline healthcare systems in order to accommodate a new stream of patient data, which is only going to get increasingly bigger and more complex.

Genomics: what it could mean for the future of medicine

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