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Re:Report finds that Human Genome Project has added $1 trill... by prollyignored on Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:55AM (#5873752)
I'm pretty sure the $$profits are because of dna finger printing technologies. No cures have been found.
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Re:Report finds that Human Genome Project has added $1 trill... by miga on Thursday June 13, 2013 @10:32AM (#5874210)
Wrong. Genes could be easily compared with non-human homologs, and thus many possible drug target genes were found by similarity to other species.

Medical knowledge thus also benefitted from non-human sequencing projects.

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