1.   Such programmes should be directed at lifestyle rather than disease detection, and targeted at improving the health of women of all ages.

2.   But the mapping of the genome has emboldened biotech firms to attempt large-scale efforts to ramp up the business of early disease detection.

3.   Moreover, nanotechnology is believed to have great potential in biomedicine in applications ranging from improved drug delivery to disease detection.

4.   Ordonez now runs Celera Diagnostics, a joint venture of Celera and Applied Biosystems that is developing disease detection tests based on genes and proteins.

5.   Shandera was a newly named officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, the front-line corps of disease detection that the CDC dispatches to outbreaks.