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MARCH 6, 2024

Related news New project aims to map cellular variation in the healthy human brain Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have uncovered a strikingly similar suite of changes in gene activity in brain tissue from people with schizophrenia and from older adults.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

At the Broad, he directs the Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group , and he is a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and director of bioinformatics at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also an associate professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and their collaborators around the world have achieved the most detailed list of these genetic fingerprints to date, providing clues as to how each cancer developed.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Bernstein is also chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a professor in cell biology and pathology at Harvard Medical School, and holds the Richard and Nancy Lubin Family Chair. Once they’ve got these mutations, tumor growth becomes fast and lethal.”

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The way that clinicians subdivide diabetes patients now is based on symptoms, but in this study, the frequency of genetic risk factors seems to vary among patients with youth-onset T2D,” said Jason Flannick , Broad associate member and assistant professor at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. “We

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Anthem Rural Medicine Scholarships will provide $100,000 to offset the cost of medical school for students in the RPLP. Credit: […]

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JANUARY 17, 2024

Long-Jiang Zhang (Department of Radiology, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University) and Prof. This review was jointly published by Prof.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 26, 2023

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass), US, have collaborated to create a novel type of nanoparticle that can deliver messenger RNA that encodes for beneficial proteins to the lungs.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Dr Cristina Ureche from Hannover Medical School (MHH) guides us through the aseptic process of viral vector-based vaccines, and Dr Mark J. Newman of GeoVax, Inc., illustrates the foundation for next-generation vaccines.

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JUNE 18, 2024

“Using a paper strip readout instead of expensive fluorescence machinery is a big advancement, not only in terms of clinical care but also for epidemiological surveillance purposes,” said Ben Zhang, co-first author on the study, a medical student at Harvard Medical School and an undergraduate researcher in Sabeti’s lab when the study began.

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MARCH 8, 2024

It is currently not fully understood why a given person develops the disease or why there is a lot of variation around clinical features across people with the disease,” said senior author Miriam Udler, director of the MGH Diabetes Genetics Clinic, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an associate member at Broad.

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APRIL 2, 2024

He is also a professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Postdoctoral researcher Chenhao Li and research scientist Martin Stražar, both in Xavier’s lab, were co-first authors on the study.

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KIF1A

APRIL 6, 2024

Her undergraduate research focused on lipid metabolism of NASH at UCSD Medical School and DNA breakage and repair mechanism at Scripps Research. Lyu is currently working in a lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center studying the influence of cholesterol on cardiovascular health. degree in human biology in 2023.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 21, 2024

GoPhAST-R’s test drive In the GoPhAST-R method, researchers expose bacterial samples to various antibiotics and then use an RNA detection platform to look for distinct patterns of change in messenger RNA expression, which reflect differences in the activity of bacterial genes.

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JUNE 1, 2023

The work was co-led by senior author Pradeep Natarajan , an associate member at the Broad, the director of preventive cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Maternal meta-analysis Scientists have long thought that HDPs are caused in part by genetics.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Researchers still do not fully understand why, in part because people of South Asian descent are largely underrepresented in genomic and cardiometabolic research.

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Policy Prescription

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Rome, MD, MPH Author Affiliations: Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (Lalani, Hwang, Kesselheim, Rome); Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Lalani, Hwang, Kesselheim, Rome).

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MARCH 14, 2024

NEW GLUE BREAKTHROUGH The effort builds on work published earlier this year and led by co-senior author Amit Choudhary, an associate member of the Broad and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

“We’ve come to realize recently that there is a lot more information that we can get from our retina images than we thought was possible,” says senior author Nazlee Zebardast, director of glaucoma imaging at Mass Eye and Ear and an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.

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JULY 13, 2023

Prior to joining Dewpoint, Isaac was on the faculty at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, as well as a scientist at the Whitehead Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Biology from The Rockefeller University and an MD from Weill Cornell Medical College.

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Broad Institute

MAY 23, 2024

Multimodal protein language models for deciphering protein function By lcopelan@broadinstitute.org May 23, 2024 Owen Queen Research Associate, Harvard Medical School Yepeng Huang PhD Student, Harvard Medical School Marinka Zitnik Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School Understanding the relationship between a protein's (..)

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JULY 25, 2024

OurHealth: The Importance of the OurHealth Study By Rose Circeo July 25, 2024 Breadcrumb Home OurHealth: The Importance of the OurHealth Study Based out of Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the OurHealth Study was founded to understand (..)

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2024

However, this heterogeneity enabled the evaluation of the impact of these variables on metastatic breast cancer and contributed exciting new evidence for emerging hypotheses.”

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 19, 2024

I’m so proud of this team and the partnership we formed to follow the science and set up some major positive impacts on women’s health,” Blainey said.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

He saw how genomic technology had progressed during the seven years he’d spent in medical school, spawning discoveries like new mutations underlying leukemia, and he wanted to bring the same capabilities to the study of infectious disease.

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Broad Institute

MAY 30, 2023

I told him I was struggling with my classes and that I didn’t think I'd make it to medical school. During my junior year of undergrad, I found a lab at my school that studied neuronal development in annelids, which are saltwater worms. I fell in love with the research and forgot all about medical school.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Co-Chairs Elise Robinson Michael Talkowski Genomics Mark Daly Ben Neale Heidi Rehm Anne O'Donnell-Luria Aarno Palotie Luke O'Connor Kaitlin Samocha Functional Ralda Nehm Paola Arlotta Steve McCarroll Beth Stevens Kasper Lage Evan Macosko

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Drug Target Review

AUGUST 28, 2024

He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics and his Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship training at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Elise Robinson and Michael Talkowski, the NDV is affiliated with faculty and teams across 13 additional labs spanning multiple Broad Institute programs as well as research groups at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and MIT.

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KIF1A

MAY 4, 2024

Her undergraduate research focused on lipid metabolism of NASH at UCSD Medical School and DNA breakage and repair mechanism at Scripps Research. Lyu is currently working in a lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center studying the influence of cholesterol on cardiovascular health. degree in human biology in 2023.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Before joining PCL, Trembley served as an instructor and research fellow at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His work leverages advanced screening platforms and engineered human stem cell models to drive innovations in heart failure treatment.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 31, 2023

Research support This work was supported in part by the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, the Institute for Basic Science, and the Max Planck Society.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Isselbacher Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; director of the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH); and co-director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at MIT. Xavier is the Kurt J.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2023

She previously served as a flow cytometry specialist at Harvard University and as a research technician at Harvard Medical School. She helps lead a team that processes a variety of sample types to support research at the institute focused on a wide range of diseases. Rogers is the vice president of New England Cytometry User’s Group.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 8, 2024

at Harvard Medical School, where he conducted research with Pardis Sabeti on evolution of human genetic resistance to infectious disease. He has received an ASCO Young Investigator Award, a Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award, an AACR Early Stage Investigator Award, and a BroadIgnite Award in support of this work.

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biobide

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Leonard Zon’s research group, an expert in Zebrafish research at Harvard Medical School, and a doctor at Boston’s Children’s Hospital found that prostaglandins upregulate blood stem cells, boosting their engraftment after transplantation. This treatment was developed by performing a chemical screening on zebrafish.

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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

"We always knew that detecting cancer recurrence with a blood test would be an incredible feat, and the scientists in the Gerstner Center have risen to the challenge," said Todd Golub , director of the Broad Institute and faculty at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.

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