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UCLA researchers devise new method to identify disease markers, a key step toward personalized medicine.
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Criminal charges relating to a 2008 lab accident at UCLA continue to raise concerns over safety practices in all university labs.
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FINDINGS: Each individual carries a unique version of the human genome. Genetic differences can influence traits such as height, weight and vulnerability to disease, but precisely what these genetic variants are and how they exercise their impact is mostly unknown. UCLA researchers have now developed a novel approach to study the ways in which these individual differences affect how strongly certain genes are "expressed" — that is, how they are translated into the proteins that do the actual work in cells.
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