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Top Student Achievers Defy 'The Norm'
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Program will give San Diego area teachers in-depth information about exciting advances in genomics
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Venter Institute Scientists Create First Synthetic Bacterial Genome
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NIH Roadmap Effort to Use Genomic Technologies to Explore Role of Microbes in Human Health and Disease
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