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

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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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