Just when we thought the genome project was over, another one is heading for a major government funding.
Cancer is the major disease of our time, and many believe that it is curable compared to viral diseases like AIDS. Cancer curability has so far eluded medical science, but maybe with a complete bluprint of cancer genetic code, we could begin the serious business of eliminating destructive cell growth among humans. The project, named The Cancer Genome Atlas, will have a total price tag of a billion dollars. Already, The National Cancer Institute, has already pledged $100 million for the project to begin. Another $100 million will come from the National Genome Research Institute.
Cancer develop because of minor
genetic errors, currently too small for science to identify. With a complete mapping of how cancer cells originate, at the very least specifying drug treatments for various types of cancer will be more accurate.
