Background Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly used for Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb) research. Countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden face …

Pharmacogenomics are frequently considered in personalized medicine to maximize
therapeutic benefits and minimize adverse drug reactions. However, there is a movement …

Background The poor genomics research capacity of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) could
prevent maximal benefits from the applications of genomics in the practice of medicine and …

Background The benefits of genomics and biotechnology are concentrated primarily in the
industrialized world, while their potential to combat neglected diseases in the developing …

It is a sine qua non that research and health care provided in international settings raise
profound ethical questions when different cultural and political values are implicated. Yet …

Despite the tremendous improvement that has been made in the past decade on funding
research into diseases that are highly prevalent in developing countries, there remains a lot …

In recent years, there have been several proposals for large-scale human genotyping
projects in the developing world. The dissertation presented here explores the motivations …

Background: Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly used for Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb) research. Countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden face …

At the end of the first decade of the new millennium, over 1 billion of the world's population
are still undernourished (FAO, 2009). Another one billion (http://www. who …

This chapter presents an extension of the authors' earlier work, where they showed that
nucleotide/amino acid sequences related to insulin occurred in the plant kingdom. It was …