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Rapid DNA analysis helps diagnose mystery diseases

  • Written by Charles Chiu, Professor of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Rapid DNA analysis helps diagnose mystery diseasesDecoding all the DNA in a patient's biological sample can reveal whether an infectious microbe is causing the disease.ktsdesign/Shutterstock.com

As doctors, we deal with a lot of uncertainty. Often, it is difficult to diagnose what is making a patient sick because symptoms from both infectious and non-infectious diseases can be indistinguishable...

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