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The Broad Institute is committed to open sharing not only of its scientific data and tools, but also information and news about our progress towards achieving our mission. Below are the latest video highlights from the Broad scientific community.
 
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    Introduction to De Novo RNA-Seq Assembly using Trinity

    Introduction to transcript reconstruction from RNA-Seq data and running the Trinity software.
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    Piercing the cell

    A team of scientists has been carefully studying changes over time in one type of immune cell – known as a T helper 17 or Th17 cell. Their analysis led them to an unlikely suspect in the study of autoimmune diseases: salt. In this video, seven team members from the Broad Institute’s...
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    Human evolution: From genotype to phenotype

    Hear how researchers in senior associate member Pardis Sabeti's lab looked for signals of natural selection in the human genome and pursued one of the most promising candidates in order to decipher its biological effects in an animal model. Video by Nick Dua, Broad Communications
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    Tracking evolution's paw prints

    Unlike wolves, dogs have the ability to digest starch, and new research from Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology here at the Broad, and her colleagues in Uppsala suggests that this may have been a key evolutionary change. Find out more in the video above and in...
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    Annotating gene sequence variation

    The Primer on Medical and Population Genetics is a series of informal weekly discussions of basic genetics topics that relate to human populations and disease. Experts from across the Broad Institute community give in-depth introductions to the basic principles of complex trait genetics,...
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