Los Angeles Times reporter Geoffrey Mohan writes about a new study, coauthored by researchers from the Broad Institute, that identifies over 100 regions in human DNA that correlate with schizophrenia. “The findings provide substantial support for a genetic root to the disorder and greatly narrow the search for genes that may cause the disease, the authors said,” writes Mohan.
“In the largest-ever donation to psychiatric research, Connecticut businessman Ted Stanley is giving $650 million to the Eli and Edythe Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,” reports Curt Nickisch for WBUR.
New York Times reporter Gina Kolata examines new findings from researchers at the Broad Institute that provide evidence that triglycerides are a cause of heart attacks.
Joel Brown reports for The Boston Globe on the new Innovations of Cambridge tour, which features several research labs at MIT. “It leaves them with the feeling that they’ve experienced MIT in a way that the casual person wandering the streets would not,” explains guide Daniel Berger-Jones.
New York Times reporter Gina Kolata examines a new MIT study that uncovered a rare mutation that protects people from getting Type 2 diabetes. The findings could be applied to developing a drug that mimics how the mutation operates, Kolata writes.