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Outreach for health


First-year medical students spent a week at a Navajo Reservation in Arizona talking with middle- and high-school students about diabetes, obesity and substance abuse.

Monkey genome reveals DNA similarities with humans

Scientists at the Genome Sequencing Center were among those to decode the rhesus macaque monkey genome, which shares about 93 percent of DNA with humans.