With the completion of the genome they can effectively go supersonic. Big drugs companies which have invested in genomic technology have seen their research efforts accelerate.
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The hope is that terrible diseases from cancers to heart disease, diabetes, schizophrenia and osteoporosis will be curable by altering genes instead of just suppressing symptoms.īut for the real benefits of the genome to be realised, the promise of science has to meet commercial demands. The unravelled DNA blueprint, or genome, will reveal up to 10,000 new ones. In the 50 years in which modern pharmaceutical research has developed, some 500 'targets' have been painstakingly identified. Medicines are developed by isolating these cells and 'targeting' them for treatment. Most diseases are caused by too many, too few, or malformed proteins being created by cells.
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Genes create proteins which instruct cells in the body how to act. Paul Triniman of biotechnology firm Oxford Glycosciences says: 'Until now medicine has been geared to working from the symptoms of diseases and treating these. The effect on pharmaceutical development will be revolutionary. The blueprint of life - made up of pairs of spiral 'barcodes' of DNA 3 billion characters long - is just months if not weeks away from being decoded. The human body is literally being turned inside out. Now, however, a genuine revolution is under way. The process has been still little more than trial and error.
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But in one respect things have stayed the same - medicine works backwards from diagnosis into the still-mysterious human body.
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Much has changed in the intervening 200 years - from advances in public health to the discovery of penicillin. The great philosopher Thomas Hobbes said he would 'rather have the advice or take physic from an experienced old woman'.