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The Changing Face of DNA

  By Steve Olson
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In the basement of the Foege Building on the campus of the University of Washington, the DNA of a woman known only as G248 lies in thousands of tiny wells inside a freezer cooled to –84°C.

Five floors above, HHMI investigator Evan E. Eichler points to her DNA as the harbinger of a new way of thinking about human genetics.

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