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JUNE 18, 2024

By Allessandra DiCorato June 18, 2024 Credit: Jon Arizti-Sanz SHINE, a rapid diagnostic test developed by Pardis Sabeti's lab in 2020, uses paper strips and CRISPR enzymes to identify specific sequences of viral RNA in samples. Then, in 2022, they began adapting the assay to detect other viruses they knew were always circulating: influenzas.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Doctors currently don’t have effective targeted treatments, so they often have to stop the anti-tumor therapy or give large amounts of steroids, which have their own undesired side effects such as lowering the efficacy of the ICI anti-tumor treatment. Tags: Cancer RNA sequencing Paper Cited Blum S, Zlotoff D, et al.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

By Leah Eisenstadt, Broad Communications October 23, 2024 Credit: Courtesy of the Broadbent family Brian and Julia Broadbent are raising their daughters Claire, top left, and Emma, seated, who is the first person to be diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder caused by the long noncoding RNA CHASERR.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Patients with possible undiagnosed infections kept him up at night as he ran through their medical histories, occupations, and personal life details in his mind, searching for clues to the identity of the microscopic invaders. I couldn’t fathom what it was going to be like,” he said.

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MARCH 8, 2024

First author Zoë Levine is an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School and graduate student in the lab of Pardis Sabeti at the Broad. That’s interesting from a public health perspective because oftentimes in a clinical setting, if someone tests positive for malaria, the doctor will give them antimalarials and stop there.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Cell Painting uses six fluorescent dyes to image eight different components of a cell: the nucleus, nucleoli, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), golgi apparatus, cytoplasmic RNA, f-actin cytoskeleton, and plasma membrane.

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MAY 2, 2024

Today, she is a senior associate computational biologist in the Getz lab, where she applies computational techniques to DNA and RNA sequencing data to analyze rapid autopsy samples, taken from multiple sites throughout the body at the time of a cancer patient’s death. I love that in all forms of science, you solve problems.

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