Due to EU regulations, Europe is lagging behind the U.S. and South Korea. Discussions at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona among regulators and telecom executives are trying to address the issue as it has an impact on future investments and technological leadership.AT&T will deploy 5G mobile services in twelve cities in the U.S. by the end of 2018, Atlanta and Dallas are among them. 5G can handle one million communications per square kilometer and will enable the expansion of Internet of Things (IoT). Also, its lower latency (to about 1 millisecond) makes it possible the service in time-critical applications in health care, utilities, and others.
5G can handle one million communications per square kilometer and will enable the expansion of Internet of Things (IoT). Also, its lower latency (to about 1 millisecond) makes it possible the service in time-critical applications in health care, utilities, and others. The genome contains the hereditary information of all living cells in an organism and that includes the potential diseases inherited from previous generations. The Human Genome Project (HGP) started as an international project and in 2003 it came up with the human genome map.
More recently Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies and Artificial Intelligence software are making possible a new era of personalized genome sequencing and predictive medicine that estimates the risk of disease even decades before it exists, providing individuals with a recommended medicine and lifestyle to prevent the occurrence of the disease. It allowed, for instance, the early detection of the BRCA1 gene variant to a movie star as it increased the probability of breast cancer to 87%.
Also, the cost per genome has decreased exponentially for the last 10 years and predictive medicine has become a health service affordable to individuals. Read more: www.genome.gov/sequencingcostsdata/ |
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