Some diseases defy diagnosis. Brendan Maher meets two people who hope that the US National Institutes of Health can help.
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Brendan Maher is Nature's biology features editor.
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Maher, B. Medicine: Last chance clinic. Nature 460, 1071–1075 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4601071a
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