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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

LAB TO LIBRARY | ‘GENOME’ Decodes Life’s Basis for Every Reader

LAB TO LIBRARY | ‘GENOME’ Decodes Life’s Basis for Every Reader

By Naomi Greenberg September 21, 2023

A common analogy in biology compares the genome to a book, where chromosomes are chapters and genes are sentences. Unfortunately, that’s where the analogy ends; one cannot actually “read” the human...

Lombardi Identifies Cancer Genes

By Caroline Welch March 25, 2014

Researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified an assembly of 55 genes, related with low levels or impairment of a certain protein, which could predict poorer prognoses...

Political Leanings Linked to Genes

By Kevin J. Wu November 11, 2010

(UWIRE) Scientists at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego, have provided evidence for the first time of a gene that plays a role in shaping an individual's political beliefs. The study,...

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