MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

 

• ENCODE provides a huge amount of knowledge to medical practitioners and professionals to aid in the healing and recognition of genetic diseases associated with transcription factors and regulatory genes.

 

• ENCODE can be used to identify possible cancer in one's genome by identify the certain gene surpressor elements that can turn on and off certain genes. 

 

• The project gives scientists a much more complete understanding of our biology and helps researchers in the field tailor specific medical treatments to different types of patients. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

 

• Makes many scientists and biological researchers aware that DNA previously thought of as junk is very vital to the survival of the organism

 

• Mouse experiment showed that cutting the "Junk" DNA from the organism's genome resulted sometimes in a fatality. 

 

• Discovery of Promoters, Silencers, and certain transcription factors in the DNA can assist researchers in the field of epigenetics and genome modification projects.