Jun 24, 2010

Book of life



I always had interest genome theory, well the latest information is within a few years, a standard aspect of your health care could include the decoding of every aspect of your genetic make-up.This would predict the diseases you are likely to develop in the future, which treatments will work best for your illnesses and what doses would best suit you. The basic technology for doing this - sequencing the human genome - is evolving at an extraordinary pace. What has been, up until now, a revolutionary research tool is fast advancing towards the clinic.

It took 2,000 of the world's scientists more than 10 years and $2.7bn to read the first human genome. Today the same job takes one lab three weeks and less than $10,000.

Which in the course of four and half billion years of evolution, has arisen and has become smart enough to read out our own code of instructions. One of the clinical expectations from the human genome project was that one day we would be going to our doctors for a personal genome reading.