Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme they found in bacteria into an efficient, programmable editor of human DNA. The engineered protein, called NovaIscB, can be …
A new AI model developed by researchers at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute and ETH Zurich’s Department of Health Science and Technology can identify genes that have been altered, such as ones that might be causing a disease, in a …
Growing up in the Sichuan province in China, Bo Xia was curious about the nature he saw around him: the creeks that ran through his hometown and its many animals and insects. In school, he loved imagining how molecules made up materials and whole organisms …
Since the earliest days of her scientific career, Melina Claussnitzer, a metabolic disease researcher at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease (NNFC) at the Broad Institute, has been thinking about how to accelerate the …
The MacArthur Foundation and its nonprofit affiliate, Lever for Change, have announced the Sentinel program as one of five finalists in the 100&Change competition. 100&Change is a global competition awarding a single $100 million grant to help …
Diane Diehl excelled in math and science as a student, but in high school, she also got a taste for business. During summers, she worked at her father’s small engineering firm in Wheeling, Illinois, managing the office, handling payroll, and making sure …
Since the 1990s, researchers have found several immune system molecules that act like “brakes” on immune responses, leading to a new class of cancer drugs. One of these “immune checkpoint” molecules, called Tim-3 has recently been linked to late-onset …
Gene editing pioneer David Liu, a core member at the Broad Institute where he is the Richard Merkin Professor and director of the Merkin Institute for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, has been named a laureate of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in …
Spatial transcriptomics technologies opened the door for new kinds of biological measurements, allowing scientists to generate detailed maps of where genes are expressed in tissue. But most methods rely on expensive and time-intensive imaging that requires …
When Maddie Murphy, a computational associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, first learned she’d have the opportunity to pursue her research in Copenhagen, she envisioned a two- or three-week visit. Then her supervisor, Ray Jones, told her she …
When Maddie Murphy, a computational associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, first learned she’d have the opportunity to pursue her research in Copenhagen, she envisioned a two- or three-week visit. Then her supervisor, Ray Jones, told her she …
In recent years, public discussions about autism, autism research, and individuals with autism have revealed a wide range of views, at times becoming contentious. Autism researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard noticed that the discourse …
Recently, scientists have been able to explore gene circuitry in individual cells using methods that suppress particular genes and measure the impact on the expression of other genes. These methods, however, fail to capture spatial information such as the …
Count Me In, a patient-partnered research initiative led by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is launching a new project focused on translocation renal cell carcinoma (tRCC), a rare and aggressive form of kidney …
Two studies led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Mass General Brigham have greatly expanded the number of known genetic variants that boost the risk for atrial fibrillation (AF), a common heart condition marked by irregular …
A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to uncover ancient systems with the potential to expand the genome editing toolbox. These systems, which the researchers call TIGR …
Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of many cancers, but brain tumors such as gliomas remain particularly difficult to treat, in part because they potently suppress immune responses. New findings from researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT …
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has appointed Alex Rives, a leading computer scientist and pioneering artificial intelligence researcher, as a core institute member. Rives will also serve as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical …
When Xiao Wang applied to faculty jobs, many of the institutions where she interviewed thought her research proposal — to study the life cycle of RNA in cells and how it influences normal development and disease — was too broad. However, that was not the …
Scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Columbia University have discovered that about 5 percent of adult cancers rely heavily on a gene called PELO to survive and that disabling the gene kills those …
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