Taking 'chips' to the next level of gene hunting
14th Nov 2006, 19:47 GMT
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins' High Throughput Biology Center have invented two new gene "chip" technologies that can be used to help identify otherwise elusive disease-causing mutations in the 97 percent of the genome long believed to be "junk."
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