Johns Hopkins refines ?gene chip? technology

Published November 16, 2006 5:00am ET



Someday a single glass slide containing your entire genome could tell doctors whether you are prone to develop breast cancer or if you will have heart disease in 50 years.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins? High Throughput Biology Center invented two new gene “chips” to scan for otherwise elusive disease-causing mutations in the 97 percent of the genome geneticists once described as “junk.”

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