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The Human Genome Project finished decoding our DNA around a decade ago. Now researchers can turn to this ‘Book of Life’ for raw data that is helping us to attack many diseases at their roots. At the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Dr. Jan Korbel and his team have discovered that an aggressive kind of cancer that causes brain tumors in children is linked to a specific genetic defect. Those results are already beginning to have an effect on therapy development. EMBL was founded around 40 years ago. Its staff of 1,800 works at five locations in four European countries. Tomorrow Today introduces the work of a cancer researcher who won a grant from the European Research Council.