U.Md., Baltimore, scores genome maven

Published April 6, 2007 4:00am ET



The latest University of Maryland School of Medicine expansion is bad news for Lyme disease and other mysterious pathogens.

Claire Fraser-Liggett, who will head the new Institute of Genome Sciences, said unlocking the secrets of the Lyme-causing bacteria borrelia burgdorferi is a long-standing interest of hers.

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