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Nikhil's Pratt Pundit Page

Welcome to my Pratt Pundit page, newly created on 9/22/11.

Contact: ncv3@duke.edu

Homework 1 Link- Creating Better Medicines GC:

Sifting out Genetic Defects from Mounds of Data, Dag Hallvard Ystgaard/Elsie Lie, Research Council of Norway, 9/21/11, 9/22/11 (Grand Challenge)

Summary: Professor Frigessi, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Oslo, is carry out research to discover small portions of DNA which could cause serious genetic diseases. He believes that in 10 years, researchers could be using his work to develop "personalized" medicines capable of treating specific genetic conditions.