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The Broad
Institute's
purpose will
be to fulfill
the promise
of the Human
Genome Project
(HGP) for
medicine.
The HGP, a
13-year international
collaboration
completed
in April under
budget and
ahead of schedule,
was biology's
first program
to create
comprehensive
information
broadly applicable
to a wide
range of medical
challenges.
It has already
had a major
impact on
biomedical
research.
The HGP, however
was only the
first step
in creating
the foundations
of genomic
medicine -
whose ultimate
promise is
to transform
medical practice
through diagnosis
and therapy
based on the
cellular mechanisms
underlying
disease, rather
than the symptoms. |
