On Wednesday, Genomics England – an ambitious project to map the DNA of a million Brits – proudly announced that it had completed the “100,000 Genomes Project” started in 2013, having sequenced 100,000 whole genomes in the National Health Service (NHS).. The project goal is to improve treatments for patients with rare inherited diseases and cancer, and to uncover new diagnoses. So far, it’s involved the creation of 13 NHS Genomic Medicine Centers (GMCs), a state-of-the-art sequencing center, and an automated analytics platform to return whole genome analyses to the NHS. It’s crunched through 85,000 people’s genomes (participants with cancer have three genomes sequenced: healthy and cancerous cells within their tumor and a third from their blood). The link for this article located at Naked Security/Sophos is no longer available. . The initiative focuses on enhancing therapies for uncommon genetic disorders and tumors through genomic analysis for better identification.. Genomic Medicine, Data Protection, Healthcare Security, Biometric Data, Patient Privacy. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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