Dr. Green is a medical geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and associate director for research at the Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine.

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George Church, a molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and a pioneer of whole-genome sequencing, is unpersuaded.

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Howard Jacob, the geneticist at the Medical College of Wisconsin who sequenced Nicholas, says his hospital has started a program by which two physicians can nominate patients to be sequenced.

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Prior to definitive surgery, you should meet with a medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, geneticist (if you are at risk for the breast cancer gene), and reconstructive surgeon.

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Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, a geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research, told the BBC it was vital scientists were able to import animals, so they could collaborate with colleagues abroad.

BBC: Activists' pressure 'slowing animal imports'

Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research, said that in reality the number of imported animals such as mice that are used in research is very small because a pair are bred when they are brought into a lab.

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