In early experiments, Bhatia's lab, called the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technology, was able to infect her liver cells with malaria for the first time two weeks ago and hopes to be able to offer malaria researchers a way to test drugs that will kill the hypnozoites.

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Even more compelling work is under way to produce a predictive genetic test that can reliably distinguish between the tumors that will kill you and the slackers that grow so slowly they will never cause any harm.

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We desperately need a test that distinguishes the kind of disease that needs treatment from the kind of disease that will never kill but needs to be watched.

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The goal: a gene-based prognostic test, one that could predict years in advance which tumor will metastasize and kill you.

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