Since they figured out the cockroach genome sequence, now they believe there will be great advancements in medicine, pest control, and other areas of life. Looking for advances in safety, pest control, medicine, and social behaviors.
Since sequencing the first human genome, which took more than a decade and nearly $2.7 billion, medical researchers have found ways to make organisms resistant to disease. Also, CRISPR technology has moved the medical field toward cheap and and easy DNA editing. Scientists are looking to species like the American cockroach to learn about how traits that make them incredible adapters and stubborn survivalists are encoded in their DNA. Compared to other insects, the American cockroach genome is larger than any known genome sequence except locusts.
