Dr Tedros emphasized that countries should not allow any further work on human germline
genome editing in human clinical applications until the technical and ethical implications have been properly considered.
To enhance the development of a global governance framework for human
genome editing, the Committee will undertake online consultations and in-person engagement.
Les 18 membres du comite ont egalement annonce une consultation en ligne sur la gouvernance de l'edition du
genome, selon un communique publie jeudi par l'agence de sante de l'ONU.
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Dubai: Scientists from the Mohammad Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) conducted the first whole
genome sequencing in the UAE.
Their approach identifies extensive genetic variation in the fruit fly
genome that have previously escaped discovery.
The
genome can be viewed as a kind of musical score.
CRISPR will account for the largest technology segment in the
genome editing/genome engineering market in 2017.
On average, a single staph
genome encodes 2,800 genes.
These reports mark the culmination of the 1000
Genomes Project, which found more than 99% of variants in the human
genome that occur at a frequency of at least one percent in the populations studied.
Knome was co-founded in 2007 by geneticist and Harvard professor George Church, who recognised a substantial need for
genome interpretation technology as the cost of sequencing was rapidly decreasing.
The quest for the $1,000
genome sequence began in December 2001 at the National Human
Genome Research Institute's scientific retreat.
Riyadh: Md RasooldeenKing Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC) announced in a statement on Sunday the details of the first Saudi human
genome study on a section of the local population.
The team developed a high-quality annotated zebrafish
genome sequence to compare with the human reference
genome.
The complex wheat
genome was unscrambled by a British-led team of international researchers who analysed more than 90,000 genes.
