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Picower researcher's transgenic technique could lead to avian flu-resistant birds

October 31, 2005

Any two unrelated people are 99.9 percent identical at the level of DNA sequence. The remaining 0.1 percent difference can help explain why one person has distinct physical features, is more susceptible to a disease or responds differently to a drug or an environmental factor than another person.

HapMap provides 'catalog' of human genetic variation

October 27, 2005

Whitehead research opens door to new stem cell work

October 19, 2005

"Brain scientists team up to treat autism" - MIT Spectrum, Spring 2005

MIT launches effort to understand autism

October 3, 2005

Scientists discover key to embryonic stem-cell potential

September 8, 2005

MIT leading research into chimp genome

August 31, 2005

MIT finds genetic clue to bone and fat production

August 11, 2005

Broad researchers earn kudos for software

July 15, 2005

Study to explore risks, benefits of synthetic genomics

June 28, 2005

Study holds promise for quick cancer diagnosis

June 8, 2005

Team IDs mechanism for multiplying adult stem cells

May 24, 2005

These DNA dots, each only about 200 nanometers in diameter, were printed using a new 'nano-printing' technique developed at MIT.

New technique may speed DNA analysis

May 18, 2005

MIT researchers identify gene involved in building brains

March 30, 2005

David Bartel

Hughes Institute honors Bartel

March 22, 2005

Broad Institute researchers David Altshuler, left, Wendy Winckler, Stacey Gabriel and colleagues have found that the gene-swapping locations in human and chimpanzee genomes are entirely different.

Surprising difference found between human and chimp genomes

February 11, 2005