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When the hospital drama Grey’s Anatomy screens on June 14 (in New Zealand), there will be a ripple of pride through the corridors of Otago University’s Cancer Genetics Laboratory.  That’s because one of the main storylines in the episode - a family grappling with the terrible consequences of inherited stomach cancer - has its origins in a 1998 discovery by researchers at the laboratory, let my Oamaru-raised geneticist Parry Guilford.

Read the Interview with Parry Guilford, by Rebecca Macfie

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