#genomic information

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You can imagine a day when our skin cells, for example, are screened periodically, and their genomes are looked at automatically as part of our life for signs of skin cancers, so we can better understand whether or not a particular part of our body is turning cancerous

Nathan Pearson, a geneticist at Knome Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., company that interprets genomic information

FILMS: Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, In the Family