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News

2021

  • Tackling diabetes from every angle

 

2020

  • Dozens of non-oncology drugs can kill cancer cells
  • How a lung injury study helped inspire new COVID-19 drug trials
  • New genetic vulnerability found in upwards of a third of all cancers

 

2019

  • Loss of a DNA repair system creates a unique vulnerability in many cancer types
  • Massive sequencing study links rare DNA alterations to type 2 diabetes
  • A molecular traffic jam may underlie a rare kidney disease and several other protein misfolding disorders

 

2018

  • Upgraded computational tool boosts search for cancer vulnerabilities

 

2017

  • The breast cancer genome’s “dark matter” starts to give up some secrets
  • Turning risk-association to biological insight in T2D
  • After a decade of genome-wide association studies, a new phase of discovery pushes on

 

2014

  • International team unearths strong genetic risk factor for type 2 diabetes in Latin American populations

 

2013

  • International team completes systematic, genomic study of cervical cancer
  • New genetic risk factor for type 2 diabetes revealed
  • Mexico-US genomics partnership launches second phase
  • Bringing out the usual – and unusual – cancer genomics suspects
  • Kidney disease mutations found in a genomic blind spot

 

2012

  • Two-way exchange
  • Breast cancer’s many drivers

 

2011

  • Slim Initiative in 2011 Broad Annual Report
  • Convergence in head and neck cancer

 

2010

  • Mexico-US collaboration launched

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