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 July 29, 2022

Episode 332: Investigating how genetic and environmental factors combine to develop complex diseases

A look at how genetic and environmental factors combine to develop complex diseases.
by Tony Perkins

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Episode 332: Investigating how genetic and environmental factors combine to develop complex diseases

This episode is supported by the The Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
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University of Arizona medical researcher Darren Cusanovich is examining how our genes program cellular diversity. His lab focuses on how our interaction with the environment affects genetic input which creates disorders like asthma, which affects 25-million Americans.

Darren Cusanovich spoke with Leslie Tolbert, Ph. D. Regent’s professor emerita in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona.

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