Estonian Biobank’s Personalized Medicine Project To Unlock New Insights For Drug R&D

A new center for personalized medicine in Estonia will see PacBio’s long-read whole genome sequencing technology used to unlock new information about how genetics impact patients’ drug responses, experts from the project tell the Pink Sheet.

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Personalized medicine could soon become common practice in Estonia. A new initiative, backed by a total of €30m ($26m) in funding, is being used to establish a personalized medicine center, building on the existing Estonian Biobank, which was set up in 2000 and has sequenced more than 200,000 genomes – representing around 20% of the country’s adult population.

The Estonian Biobank, which is one of the largest in Europe, has teamed up with Pacific Biosciences of California...

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