The Broad Institute is a research collaboration of MIT, Harvard and its affiliated Hospitals, and the Whitehead Institute, created to bring the power of genomics to medicine
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A flurry of risk factors for Crohn's disease

Large-scale study helps untangle Crohn's with discovery of 21 new genetic risk factors

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Meet the genome’s puzzle masters

Making sense of genomic data can be a real puzzler, but the Broad’s computational researchers know how to put the pieces together

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A tiny key to lock blood cells' fate

Researchers discover that microRNA directs development of certain blood cells

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Students discover what's under their beds

In the Broad's educational outreach lab, high school students identify the microbes around them

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GENOMICS THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST

Science and art are often viewed as different or even opposite pursuits, but for many artists, visual imagery results from an investigation not unlike that of scientists. Viewed in this way, both fields involve the generation of knowledge, and each may stand to learn from the other. The Broad’s first resident artist, Daniel Kohn, puts the unexpected connections between art and science in the Spotlight.