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Five more researchers join multidisciplinary team at Petit Institute
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Joseph Lachance’s Georgia Tech group is one of 74 contributors worldwide
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Autoimmunity can contribute to heart disease, diabetes and Crohn's disease. Georgia Tech has been awarded a $2.3 million NIH grant to employ computation in the study of genetic variants and their influence on susceptibility.
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For two decades, geneticists have been using computer simulations to reconstruct genes and proteins millions of years old. But do their algorithms really work? A new study says: Yes, and how!