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Religiosity and telomere length: One step forward, one step back.

a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Program on Integrative Knowledge and Human Flourishing, Harvard University, National Consortium on Psychosocial Stress, Spirituality, and Health, United States b Harvard Medical School, Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, National Consortium on Psychosocial Stress, Spirituality, ...

Aspergillus PCR: one step closer to standardization.

PCR has been used as an aid in the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis for almost 2 decades. A lack of standardization has limited both its acceptance as a diagnostic tool and multicenter clinical evaluations, preventing its inclusion in disease-defining criteria. In 2006, the European Aspergillus PCR Initiative was formed. The aim of the initiative was to provide optimal standardized protocols...

One step closer to personalized genomic medicine.

We are rapidly entering an era of personalized genomic medicine. The complete sequencing of the human genome was first announced .9 years ago, and soon afterwards the annotated human genome sequence was available online. Today, DNA analysis that was once considered onerous has become routine. Although not perfect, ‘next-generation’ techniques for rapid and low-cost sequencing have been applied ...