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In Tech.View for September, Kleyn and Vesell discuss the field of pharmacogenomics, which uses large-scale genetic techniques to pursue drug development. Disease risk, drug resistance, and slow drug clearance are all known to be associated with particular genes. The authors review the methods for searching the human genome that may reveal connections between genetic variations and drug effectiveness and safety.

The September Tech.Sightings describe a tumor growth assay that makes use of the developing blood vessels in chicken eggs and a new application of the two-hybrid system for screening clone libraries to find specific enzyme substrates. Net Tips provides a security advisory for a flaw in some e-mail programs and tells how to find security bulletins

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