Juanita Escobar MartínezMedicine Student

DNA: THE FUTURE’S MEDICINE

“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” 

― Bill Gates, The Road Ahead

FOLDING

FOLDING

INTRODUCTIONDNA: genetic information.

Importance of manipulating genes for new studies.

Genetic Therapy.

Complex structure: 3 components with 3

characteristics.

“New approach to identify genes

poised to respond in asthma patients”

Science Daily (July 8, 2014)

“Genetic code is a divine writing.” ― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident

“New approach to identify genes poised to respond in asthma patients”

Genomic neighborhoods

The division of the genome by regions, facilitates the

gene production because we can have markers that reproduced one in his

“neighborhood” instead of doing it in other parts of the

genome, evitating some mutations.

“New approach to identify genes poised to respond in asthma patients”

Protective memory cells

In asthma is very important the inmunogenic cells

because some of them has memory and with the gene

manipulation you can inducce turning on an

answer that you have done sometime.

“New approach to identify genes poised to respond in asthma patients”

Asthma causes

With the «neighborhoods» technique, there will be

easier to find cells that carry the disease, in this case asthma. In the future,

scientists could use this technique to find cures for

other diseases.

OBSERVATION

Asthma disease

This kind of findings are very important for the evolution of cell’s knowledge, because day by day scientist are

clustering cell’s parts for watching how they interact for a possible cure for a disease.

“New technique maps life's effects

on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to

study environmental

effects on DNA”

Science Daily(July 20, 2014)

“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.” ― Sy Montgomery, Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Southeast Asia

“New technique maps life's effects on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to study

environmental effects on DNA”

DNA methylation

We born with one specific genome but as we grow up, our genes get exposed to enviromental effects and that modifies it. Studying this changes is usefull for

therapies.

“New technique maps life's effects on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to study

environmental effects on DNA”

Single cell study

There are some markers that indicates where the

epigenitc modification is, and amplifying it and reading

it, we can localizate the damage and repair it. It will be usefull more tecnological equipement for facilitated

this techniques.

“New technique maps life's effects on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to study

environmental effects on DNA”

DNA mapping

This new techniques make us able to analize how the

genes change with the pass of the years and conclude

that this modifications occur in controled genes.

OBSERVATION

Cancer cells

This new method improves the way of analizing epigenetic marks, because they use one specific cell that might be

the one who will be the cause of a future disease.

MEDICAL UTILITY

“The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.” ― Lewis Thomas.

MEDICAL UTILITY“New approach to identify genes poised

to respond in asthma patients”

Nowadays, we don’t simply study genes, we modified it. This allows us having new targets for cure of diseases like cancer and asthma. However with the time, this kind of techniques

will help us to find the therapy for other diseases. Making our genome more protective and giving us a better quality of life.

MEDICAL UTILITY“New technique maps life's effects on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to study environmental effects on

DNA”If we have this techniques that allow us localizate genome markers, we could repaired our genes and make cells more

resistant to enviromental effects and cure genetical diseases since early development, so we could live more.

MEDICAL UTILITYIn the past, scientists searched for cures that came from outside of human body, now they realized that more effective ones come from inside us: our DNA it’s the best cure. Working with DNA, help us curing many diseases since the early development, like cancer or asthma, diseases that came from our parents: genetic diseases. But working with it, also help us curing diseases caused by the environment and bringing the opportunity to start a family, with fertility treatments.

However, it is important to continue with the investigations about this discovery, so we can improve the cures and our quality of life.

BIBLIOGRAPHY· MARTINEZ SANCHEZ, Lina Maria. Biologia molecular. 7ma ed. Medellin: UPB. Fac. de Medicina, 2012. p 59-63. · La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. “New approach to identify genes poised to respond in asthma patients”. Science Daily. Science Daily, 8 July, 2014. www.sciencedaily.com · Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council. “New technique maps life’s effects on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to study environmental effects on DNA”. Science Daily. Science Daily, 20 July 2014. www.sciencedaily.com 

THANKS