#dna is Worth Billions. How #blockchain Helps to Securely Store Medical Data
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Biological and medical science experienced a real breakthrough when the DNA structure was decoded in 1953.DNA is a macromolecule that stores and transfers essential information about living beings, i.e. the genetic code. Francis Crick and James Watson, the scientists who described the double helix of this biopolymer, received the 1962 Nobel Prize, nine years after the discovery.Could they know at that time that their achievement would be the object of cyber-theft after half a century?Genetic passportSimply put, DNA is a sequence of molecules (nucleotides) where the genome information is stored in the form of a certain code.DNA is a carrier and transmitter of heredity from skin color and eye shape to specific diseases that were transferred from parents. The unique code contained in the (...)