Sentences with phrase «survival than the human genome»

They estimated that the microbiome provides more genes that contribute to human survival than the human genome itself provides (8 million vs. 22,000).

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The human genome contains around 20,000 genes, by refining CRISPR - Cas9 technology and using it to screen the leukemia genome the team uncovered a catalogue of approximately 500 genes that are essential for cancer cell survival, including more than 200 genes for which drugs could be designed.
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