IGIB Human Genome
IGIB Human Genome
Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB) is a prime Institute of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), pursued in research of national importance in the areas of genomics, molecular medicine, bioinformatics, proteomics and environmental biotechnology. Using as small as 10 millilitres of blood from a “healthy 52-year-old-man”, scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) in Delhi have successfully mapped the Human Genome Sequence for the first time in India.
The globes first Human Genome Sequence was a effect of the International Human Genome Project comprising scientists from the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan and China. The Project started in 1990, and the sequencing was finished in 2003. The breakthrough paves the way for predictive healthcare and the possibility of identifying why certain people (with particular gene sequences) do not react to certain medications, and what diseases a particular gene carrier, or a population, is likely to develop.
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