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Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos, University of Washington

Caption: University of Washington genome scientist Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos studies the regulatory elements in the human genome. His team has created maps of these on/off switches and a dictionary of the human genome's "programming language."

Credit: Clare McLean, University of Washington

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