BioLogic

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2018-03-27

  BioLogic: The transformative power of CRISPR in the lab, with John Doench and Ruth Hanna

John Doench, associate director of the Genetic Perturbation Platform (GPP) and institute scientist at the Broad Institute, and Ruth Hanna, research associate in GPP, discuss how the CRISPR system has revolutionized studies of gene function.
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author
2017-07-07

  BioLogic: Ten years of perspective on GWAS, with Joel Hirschhorn

Joel Hirschhorn, institute member and co-director of the Metabolism Program at the Broad Institute and professor of pediatrics and genetics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, sits down with BioLogic to talk about how the research...
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author
2017-06-23

  BioLogic: Empowering psychiatric disease research through genetics, with Mark Daly

Broad Institute member Mark Daly, co-director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics, investigator with the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, and chief of the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital,...
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author
2017-05-03

  BioLogic: The future of genome sequencing in healthcare, with Heidi Rehm and Robert Green

Genome sequencing may someday become a routine part of medical care, but questions still surround best practices for returning genetic information to patients in a way that will optimally impact their health. Geneticists Robert Green and Heidi Rehm exp...
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author
2017-04-21

  BioLogic: Harnessing the immune system to fight cancer, with Nir Hacohen

Nir Hacohen, an institute member at Broad, director of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, takes us to the intersection of cancer, immunotherapy, and autoimmune di...
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author
2017-03-15

  BioLogic: The fight against antibiotic resistance, with Jim Collins

Jim Collins, an institute member at the Broad Institute, a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and a professor at MIT, dives into the social and scientific causes of antibiotic resistance and explains some o...
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author
2017-02-27

  BioLogic: Rare disease research inspired by patient care, with Anna Greka

In recognition of Rare Disease Day, Anna Greka, an institute member at the Broad Institute, an associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, shares part of her journey as a physician-scientis...
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author
2017-02-06

  BioLogic: Revealing the genetic basis of ecological adaptation, with Hopi Hoekstra

Hopi Hoekstra, an institute member at the Broad Institute, a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at Harvard University, and the curator of mammals at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, tells us how her lab combines the genetic, environmental, and ...
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author
2017-01-10

  BioLogic: Structural variation and disease in the human genome, with Steve McCarroll

Steve McCarroll, an institute member at the Broad Institute, director of genetics for the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genetics, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, takes us beyond single base-pair deletions and misspellings to expl...
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author
2016-07-14

  Microbiome genes on the move - how the study came to be, with Ilana Brito and Eric Alm

The largest metagenomic view of the developing world has uncovered “mobile genes” that reveal how culture shapes the human microbiome. Broad Institute authors of the paper, published in the journal Nature, discuss how the study came to be.
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard author