There are 4, 700 diseases where molecular causes have been discovered, mostly within the past 10 years, he said.

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Thus far, much of the molecular diagnostics field has concentrated on infectious diseases, detecting HIV, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia.

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In August it entered the hot area of molecular diagnostics, highly sensitive tests to detect infectious diseases and cancer.

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In August it moved into the hot area of molecular diagnostics, highly sensitive tests to detect infectious diseases and cancer.

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Scientists are on the verge of enabling us to attack diseases almost on an individual basis, thanks to molecular and genetic research breakthroughs.

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"Apo E is one of those genes that we suspect controls life span because it affects people's susceptibility to diseases of aging, " says Jan Vigh, a molecular geneticist at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

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Lapatinib is a product of the growing field of molecular medicine the design of drugs to attack specific protein molecules associated with particular diseases.

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Jonothan Solomon , a cell and molecular biologist at Elixer and one of its first employees, says the company is interested in treating metabolic diseases like diabetes.

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