When Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope in 1816 he could not have foreseen its immense value for the medical profession. Ironically, his device was misnamed—it is actually a “stethophone” that doesn’t see into, or scope, anything, but simply allows the listener to hear sounds from within the body. But now, fueled by the genomics revolution, we are beginning to reap the benefits of a new stethoscope—one that sees inside the body at the molecular level.
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