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Using Evolution to Understand Human Health and Disease

Published: March 30, 2007, 10:32 a.m.

Learn about the discovery that the genetic “hardware”—the genes and proteins that do the work—are for the most part dramatically similar among seemingly different animals. Most discoveries in one organism can be used to guide research in another.