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As consumers get more involved in the management of their health , consumer genetics and research companies have grown in popularity and scale . People want to further understand their genetic makeup , leading personal genomics and biotech company 23andMe to become one of the largest consumer-based organisations worldwide . Interestingly , this year , the company has entered a four-year collaboration with GSK to develop new treatments , but using human genetics as the basis for discovery .

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Not only looking to develop treatments by analysing human genetics , pharmaceutical companies are looking to even remove hereditary genes which pass diseases down generations . In 2017 , human embryos were successfully ‘ edited ’ through gene editing tool , CRISPR ( Clustered , Regularly Interspaced , Short Palindromic Repeats ), eradicating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy within 42 embryos . DECEMBER 2018