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Wendy Chung discusses what genetics can do for medicine
One of the questions Wendy Chung is frequently asked is what can genetics do in terms of medicine for us today, and is that changing? She argues that we are in a very dynamic period of medical history, where we have extremely powerful tools that we’ve never had before to be able to diagnose individual patients and understand better what’s the cause of their condition.
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