Species diversity helps researchers refine analyses of human gene mutations
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 10:21
in Biology & Nature
In the new era of personalized medicine, physicians hope to provide earlier diagnoses and improve therapy by evaluating patients' genetic blueprints. But, as a new bioinformatics study emphasizes, the first step must be to correctly decipher the deluge of information locked in our DNA and determine its impact on human health.