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Posted 11 May 2016 - 01:03 AM


http://news.mit.edu/...arrhythmia-0510

 

“The exciting part is that we’ve applied this to one trait in one tissue, but we can apply this now to basically every disease,”

says Xinchen Wang, an MIT graduate student and the paper’s lead author. “The new direction for us now is to target some

of the bigger diseases like cholesterol-related heart disease and Alzheimer’s.”







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