{"id":13196,"date":"2025-08-21T08:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=13196"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:27:19","slug":"uae-adds-newborns-to-major-genome-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/uae-adds-newborns-to-major-genome-project\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Adds Newborns to Major Genome Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anything with the UAE is of interest as I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/babylon-and-luxurious-living-home-of-antichrist\/\">theory that the crown prince of Dubai, a member nation, might be the Antichrist<\/a>. But also notice how the megacorp pharmaceutical companies want to get their hands on the database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/08\/20\/2025\/uae-adds-newborns-to-major-genome-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/08\/20\/2025\/uae-adds-newborns-to-major-genome-project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_f94c1f56-7f57-48f1-be69-56fc921ef8d0\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.semafor.com\/ea8433f17bb9d1fede7b01f5610cc6507b2d10b5-1279x960.png?w=1920&amp;q=75&amp;auto=format\" alt=\"Sequencing technology at work at an M42 facility, with the annotation: \u201cBABYPROOFED.\u201d\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy M42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Abu Dhabi is gathering the DNA of Emirati newborns in a significant expansion of a national genomic sequencing project that aims to put the UAE on the cutting-edge of health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAE capital has so far mapped the genomes of 68% of Emirati citizens, a spokesperson for M42, the firm running the program, told Semafor, while at-birth sequencing is being offered to parents on a voluntary basis across several hospitals, and aims to detect over 800 treatable childhood genetic conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only around 1% of the world\u2019s mapped genomes are of Arab descent. The UAE is looking to address the gap while tackling public health issues and expanding personalized health care offerings. M42 \u2014 a unit of state-backed AI firm G42 \u2014 is now courting other countries to gather genetic data as well as major pharmaceutical companies to tap into its growing dataset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Kelsey Warner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anything with the UAE is of interest as I have a theory that the crown prince of Dubai, a member nation, might be the Antichrist. But also notice how the megacorp pharmaceutical companies want to get their hands on the database. https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/08\/20\/2025\/uae-adds-newborns-to-major-genome-project Abu Dhabi is gathering the DNA of Emirati newborns in a significant expansion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13197,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions\/13197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}