How the genomics revolution could finally help Africa
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
How the WTO Could Be Improved
AbstractThis paper examines the impasse in the current Doha Development Round negotiations andasks how the rules of the WTO could be changed to facilitate multilateral negotiations andto increase the welfare of the Member countries. It considers possible changes to the methodof negotiation. As examples of rules which are outdated, it considers the rules relating toregional trade agreements and ...
متن کاملReconstructing/Deconstructing the Earliest Eukaryotes How Comparative Genomics Can Help
We could reconstruct the evolution of eukaryote-specific molecular and cellular machinery if some living eukaryotes retained primitive cellular structures and we knew which eukaryotes these were. It's not clear that either is the case, but the expanding protist genomic database could help us in several ways.
متن کاملThe genomics revolution and radiotherapy.
The expansion of our knowledge through the Human Genome Project has been accompanied by the development of new high-throughput techniques, which provide extensive capabilities for the analysis of a large number of genes or the whole genome. These assays can be carried out in various clinical samples at the DNA (genome), RNA (transcriptome) or protein (proteome) level. There is a belief that thi...
متن کاملHow could MDMA (ecstasy) help anxiety disorders? A neurobiological rationale.
Exposure therapy is known to be an effective treatment for anxiety disorders. Nevertheless, exposure is not used as much as it should be, and instead patients are often given supportive medications such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and benzodiazepines, which may even interfere with the extinction learning that is the aim of treatment. Given that randomized controlled trials are now ...
متن کاملGenomics in permanent revolution
John Sulston, who coordinated the UK side of the international publicly funded efforts to sequence ‘the’ human genome, once said the endeavour was like a moon shot. He may only have referred to the scale and ambition of the project, but one could argue that, in both cases, outdated technology and extraordinary amounts of money were used to hit a highly visible and prestigious target, just to sh...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/544020a