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Preventing disease

An understanding of genetic contributions to disease will create new opportunities for us to safeguard our health.

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An international consortium of researchers, BloodGen, is developing a new form of genetic blood test that will provide much closer matching between blood samples and transfusion recipients. 13/09/06

A woman is pregnant with what is thought to be the first child in the UK to have been selected to be free of a cancer gene, The Times has reported. 15/05/06

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Pathogen genes introduced into the body and expressed to make pathogen-specific proteins that stimulate a protective immune response. 27/08/02
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease." Thomas Edison
               

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