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Yale scientists and a patient’s family join forces to find a cure

Chloe Kiev, an otherwise perfect baby, was born with a troubling trait—a very loud heart murmur. It was so loud, in fact, that when a cardiologist did an echocardiogram he immediately recognized Chloe’s condition, which was later confirmed genetically. She has Williams syndrome.Williams syndrome, named for the New Zealand cardiologist who first reported it...

A triathlete’s long road

A freight truck shattered her body, but, with the help of a dedicated team of physicians, a Clinton woman is regaining her life.
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Junk no more

Yale scientists played a leading role in an international effort to map the 99 percent of the human genome that doesn’t produce proteins—perhaps ending the notion that those regions are “junk.”
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