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Database Offers New Hope in Tuberculosis Fight

A new database could be an important tool in the battle against tuberculosis. Scientists finished sequencing the genome of the tuberculosis bacterium in 1998. Through a process called expression profiling, they can analyze infected tissue samples and determine which of the bacterium's 4,000 genes are expressed and which are silent at specific stages...

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