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Look around the Broad's public spaces, and you'll find that the Broad is “Unfolding.” That’s the title of an exhibition featuring the work that artist-in-residence Guhapriya Ranganathan has created during her two-year collaboration with scientists here. Tonight, Ranganathan, known as Gupi, will give a talk at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston about that collaboration.

Boston Globe reporter Carolyn Johnson writes on today's front page about the push to target cancer with new therapies — among many specialists, the piece quotes Todd Golub, director of the Broad's Cancer Program. Todd and other colleagues discussed the Broad's approach to cancer research in the new Annual Report:

It’s not much bigger than a breadbox, yet it opens up a new way of analyzing the individual “letters” in DNA. Wrapped in a pastel plastic case, powered by silicon chips that are common all over the world, the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine is finally being released commercially.

Can you patent a nose?

That was one of a myriad of provocative questions at a recent panel called “Gene Patenting: Balancing Access and Innovation” co-sponsored by the Broad and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. (That’s myriad with a lower-case ‘m’ – not to be confused with the controversy that recently burst into the news in a court case known as ACLU v. Myriad Genetics. The more formal name is The Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. The United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al.)