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Calling Hi-C a radical extension of existing technology, Lieberman-Aiden said that the whole project had started with a simple question: Wouldn’t it be great if researchers could probe the entire genome??s architecture at once...
...human genes to execute the virus’ own operations, according to Stephen J. Elledge, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and head of the lab in which the study took place. With this understanding, Elledge and his team systematically deactivated every gene in the human genome??testing some 20,000 different genes—using new RNA interference technology, hoping to determine the genes in the host cells that the virus relied upon for infection...
...Charles is one of the world’s leading scientists studying copy number variation in the human genome??a field he helped create with a seminal paper in 2004,” David M. Altshuler, director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute, said in a statement. “We are thrilled at this well-deserved honor...
...Your genome??the stuff that tells each of your cells what to do—will no longer be just your business. What others can do with that information, however, will hopefully be limited by the law. Already, there is limited protection: The 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act prevents some, but not all, group insurers from charging different rates based on genetic information, according to a 2006 Connecticut Law Review article by Seton Hall law professor Gaia Bernstein. What is needed is a more explicitly comprehensive law banning insurer and employer discrimination—like...
...beginning to turn already, with a spate of initiatives underway. The expansion in DEAS has been accompanied by a significant commitment to life sciences projects like the Broad Institute—to which Harvard and MIT committed $100 million apiece for research on clinical uses of the human genome??and the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute...