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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 just a few scientific highlights from the Broad scientific community.

Global Alliance Focused on Responsible Data Sharing Shows Progress in Standards Development and Membership at First Partner Meeting

March 4th, 2014

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), an alliance of over 150 of the world’s leading biomedical research institutions, healthcare providers, information technology and life science companies, funders of research, and disease and patient advocacy organizations, announced progress since the group’s formation and plans for future work at a partner meeting held today at the Wellcome Trust in London.
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In the new study, researchers describe the genetic analysis of 150,000
patients showing that rare mutations in a gene called SLC30A8 reduce
risk of type 2 diabetes by 65 percent.
Image by Lauren Solomon, Broad Communications
Study pinpoints protective mutations for type 2 diabetes

March 2nd, 2014

Broad Institute and MGH lead international collaboration uncovering potential drug target, work underscores promise of genomic approaches to identify and validate targets for drug discovery
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This image of the Cas9 complex depicts the Cas9 protein (in light
blue), along with its guide RNA (yellow), and target DNA (red).
Image courtesy of Bang Wong, from source material provided by
Feng Zhang.
Broad, MIT researchers reveal structure of key CRISPR complex

February 13th, 2014

Work uncovers secret of how genome-editing tool works as a “guided missile” to correct errors in the genetic code
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Images like this one, taken by the Hubble Telescope, offer a snapshot
of how vast and various the universe is. New studies in cancer
genomics reveal that the universe of cancer mutations is much bigger
than previously thought, and many key cancer genes still remain
to be discovered.
Credit: European Space Agency & NASA; Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
and Edward W. Olszewski (University of Arizona, USA)
Study expands the cancer genomics universe

January 24th, 2014

Large-scale analysis of over 20 tumor types increases catalog of cancer genes by 25 percent
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New studies show that many rare mutations contribute to schizophrenia risk

January 22nd, 2014

Mutation patterns suggest role of synaptic gene networks
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