Genetics

Professor David E. Housman and research scientist Amanda Shearman discuss some of the images they use in their work with gene variation and cardiovascular disease.

Heart attack risk associated with common genetic variation

November 5, 2003

Professor David E. Housman of biology, left, and Amanda Shearman, research scientist in the Center for Cancer Research, discuss some of the images they use in their work with gene variation and cardiovascular disease.

Genetic variation associated with higher heart attack risk

November 4, 2003

$Professor Michael Yaffe loads a tiny protein crystal onto an X-ray diffractometer machine to study its structure.$

New breast cancer gene mechanism found

October 29, 2003

RNAi could provide instant cures

October 8, 2003

Professor Penny Chisholm (center) and post-docs Erik Zinser and Debbie Lindell survey a plankton sample.

Microbes' 'blueprints' promise insights into oceans, more

August 13, 2003

Biology professor and director of The Broad Institute Eric Lander stands behind his family at the June 19 press conference announcing the new institute. From left: daughter Jessica, 15; wife Lori; and sons Daniel, 12, and David, 8.

New genomics institute is for the children, director says

Eli & Edythe Broad give $100M to create institute with MIT, Harvard, and Whitehead to fulfill genome's promise for medicine

June 19, 2003

Researchers learn more about failure of some cloned animals

April 9, 2003

Tongkat Ali, the tree that "cures 1,000 diseases."

Scientists identify Asian tree that 'cures 1,000 diseases'

April 9, 2003

Biology class aims to engineer blinking life forms in the lab

February 26, 2003

"Imagine finding a gene that is used by a bioterrorism agent and then modifying the cells of the body to no longer express that gene." - Luk Van Parijs

Silence is golden for two teams of RNA researchers

February 26, 2003

MIT researchers silence genes with new approach

February 18, 2003

MIT researchers find another way to silence genes with small RNAs

February 14, 2003

Science magazine names RNA interference research the 'breakthrough of the year'

January 8, 2003

MIT helps make RNA interference "breakthrough of the year"

December 19, 2002

Speakers clarify science of cloning, stem cells

October 30, 2002

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