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Date Added: April 22, 2008 04:52:02 AM
The mystery behind why some have a genetic disposition to a certain disease, or why a medicine works for some and not for others, might be revealed sooner than many had anticipated. In the past couple of months, several significant breakthroughs in DNA sequencing technology have been made, giving hope to the researchers that the coveted $1,000 genome is just around the corner.

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