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Published online 12 February 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010215-8

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Watching genes at work

Now that the human genome is mapped, it is time, says Eric Lander of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "to take global views of biological processes: simultaneous readouts of all components".

The technology to do this is DNA arrays or 'gene chips'.

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