| Drug Discovery | Rare Disease Research Rare disease research gets support from large genomic and clinical datasets Unique, deep data help current research in drug discovery meet the challenge of finding new treatments for rare genetic diseases Researchers put a lot of effort into finding treatments for rare genetic diseases, but many of these conditions still lack effective therapies. It’s kind of a paradox: rare diseases collectively affect a significant portion of the population (up to 1 in 10 Americans has one, according to the National Institutes of Health, or NIH1). Yet, due to the sheer |