Alfonso E. Romero
London. PhD in Computer Science. Doing research in Computational Biology while eating fish & chips.
What is (whole) genome sequencing and how it might affect your (future) life.
Or “why Angelina Jolie removed her breast before having any cancer”.Inside the nucleus of each one of your cells we can find an identical copy of your “genetic code”, or in short, your genome. (Almost) all your hereditary information is found there in a few pieces of coiled DNA, the chromosomes. If we could take a single copy of your genome —stretched out and unrolled— it would result in a very thin wire of about 3 meters long. And this is packed inside every one of your (trillions of) cells.Alfonso E. Romero5 min read