Biochemistry 2280A Lecture Notes - Plasmid, Genomic Library, Start Codon
7 Dec 2012
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Huge impact on medicine and research- driving biology in many ways. The inside story of how these bitter rivals mapped our dna, the historic feat that changes medicine forever. Dna and the revolution in personalized medicine- pretty soon when you go to the doctor they will look at your genome sequence to properly prescribe you medicine. Every cancer differs dramatically- how the cancers differ will determine how you will be treated. Sequencing the human genome has/will identify the genetic basis for many diseases. ( genome genes and gene products that can be inhibited: identifies potential drug targets. (eg parasites may have unique. Sequencing a genome involves: creating a genomic dna library, doing many independent sequencing reactions, aligning the independent sequences into a continuous genomic sequence. It"s not any more complicated in terms of features than we talked about before but the scale is enormous.
