Blog 11.14.2022 #WhyIScience Q&A: An endocrinologist and clinical researcher explores how racism and other social factors affect patients with type 2 diabetes Sara Jane Cromer talks about the importance of including social determinants of health in research. Diabetes Read more
News 09.19.2022 Broad Discovery Center in Cambridge opens to the public this October Visitors are invited to explore galleries highlighting key discoveries and transformative insights in biomedicine. Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics NeuroGap Precision Cardiology Laboratory Cancer Program Chemical Biology and Therapeutics Science ... Read more
News 03.16.2022 Researchers catalog white fat cell types present in mice and in humans Cellular atlas will provide an important resource for translational research into human metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes Diabetes Obesity Single cell genomics Gene-Expression Profiling Single Cell ... Read more
News 10.30.2020 The Common Metabolic Diseases Knowledge Portal comes online A project of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership, the portal brings genetic and computational data on five diseases together in one place Diabetes Aggregating and harmonizing data Creating tools to generate data insights Read more
Profile 10.28.2019 #WhyIScienceQ&A: Why I switched from experimental to computational biology Diabetes genetics researcher Josep Mercader talks about the benefits and challenges of a career analyzing large and diverse datasets. Metabolism Program Diabetes Read more
News 09.19.2019 Genetic predisposition unveiled in diabetic kidney disease Researchers have found 16 new regions in the human genome that are associated with a leading complication of diabetes and point to a possible cause. Metabolism Program Diabetes Kidney Disease Read more
News 04.18.2019 Calculating genetic risk for obesity Powerful new tool may enable new opportunities for biological understanding and clinical interventions Medical and Population Genetics Cardiovascular disease Diabetes Obesity Heart Disease ... Read more
News 09.28.2018 Research Roundup: September 28, 2018 Rare cells' sequence signals amplified, and new genetic clusters of type 2 diabetes revealed. Cell Circuits Metabolism Program Diabetes Single Cell Nir Hacohen Read more
News 08.13.2018 Predicting risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants Through “polygenic risk scoring,” researchers can identify people at high risk for disease, even if they don’t present other warning signs; method shows potential for use in the clinic Medical and Population Genetics Cancer Cardiovascular disease Diabetes Heart Disease ... Read more
News 08.14.2017 After a decade of genome-wide association studies, a new phase of discovery pushes on By probing genetic variation, scientists continue to unearth the roots of disease and pave the way for precision medicine. Carlos Slim Center for Health Research Genomics Medical and Population Genetics Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research Cardiovascular disease ... Read more