Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
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How Did Genomics Find Its Way Into Our Health Care?
Genomics is changing the way we think about our health. It means that when people carry certain health conditions, scientists can see which mutations are responsible and where they are in our genome. And because we know we can pinpoint that, it means that we can potentially go in and change that particular bit of coding to eradicate the disease or find better ways of treating it. The technology is obviously fairly new, but there are lots of different applications of it already.
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