In the past few years, the promises of biotechnology-new knowledge of health and disease, better diagnostics and treatments-have been driven ever closer to fruition by an unprecedented torrent of biological data flowing from research labs. One of the key technologies generating this critical new wealth of information is a postage-stamp-sized slide of glass or plastic called a DNA microarray or, more colloquially, a DNA chip.

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