Five undiagnosed patients are the focus of a documentary and new contest run by Boston Children’s Hospital. Aiming to advance the field of genomic medicine — using a patient’s gene information in the clinic — it offers a $25,000 prize to the research team that best solves the patients’ diagnostic mysteries. Isaac Kohane, chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
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