Research projects investigating the "miracle material" graphene and the human brain have won unprecedented funding of up to 1bn euros each.

BBC: Europe gives 2bn euros to science

We have heard a lot about a new era of personalised medicine - some of it pretty wild speculation about miracle cures - that would follow in the wake of the Human Genome Project.

BBC: Is this the shape of medicine to come?

In the hoopla that followed the sequencing of the human genome in 2000, much of the excitement centered on the promise of miracle cures molecularly tailored to each individual.

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