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...million gift from California philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad will bring together researchers across the two universities, in what founders described as an unprecedented collaboration. The new Broad Institute will grow out of Whitehead’s programs, under the leadership of Eric S. Lander, a faculty member at both MIT and Whitehead and a key player in the completed Human Genome Project...
With the full human genome sequenced, research at the institute will attempt to use the data to better understand and treat the cellular mechanisms underlying disease, rather than just its symptoms, Lander explained...
...have kids. I’m hoping by the time they grow up and need medical attention that...they will be able to have access to a medicine based on actual causes,” Lander said...
...collective scientific judgment was that in a world such as ours...fundamental research and fundamental capabilities should be in the hands of all types of scientists,” Lander said...
...probe comes in two parts: an orbiter that will stay aloft to conduct atmospheric studies and a lander that will descend to the surface. Dubbed Beagle 2, after Charles Darwin's famous specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 3 ft. wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging 5 ft. below the surface, 12 ovens that can heat samples to some 1,600F to generate carbon dioxide and a mass spectrometer to identify carbon isotopes, along...