MEDLAB MAGAZINE ISSUE 1 2008

Issue 1 2008 Frontpage

The role of clinical laboratories in understanding the obesity epidemic in the Middle East Many of the chronic non-communicable diseases that cause significant morbidity and mortality in the entire industrialized world have something to do with the individual’s degree of fatness.

Regulation of gene expression in Health and Disease The full sequencing of the Human genome opened new avenues for research in biology and medicine, but also brought with it a few surprises