The Broad Institute is a research collaboration of MIT, Harvard and its affiliated Hospitals, and the Whitehead Institute, created to bring the power of genomics to medicine
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A 'next-gen' tool to view genomic data

Publicly available “Integrative Genomics Viewer” can incorporate multiple types of data and rapidly view them at any level of resolution

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A rare glimpse of schizophrenia’s genetic roots

Large multinational study reveals rare structural DNA changes play role in disorder

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Parts list for a powerhouse

New catalog reveals mitochondria’s proteins, enables studies of biology and metabolic disease

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Researchers map cells’ inner landscapes

Scientists use genomic tools to create maps of DNA methylation and to probe cellular reprogramming

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GENOMICS THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST

Science and art are often viewed as different or even opposite pursuits, but for many artists, visual imagery results from an investigation not unlike that of scientists. Viewed in this way, both fields involve the generation of knowledge, and each may stand to learn from the other. The Broad’s first resident artist, Daniel Kohn, puts the unexpected connections between art and science in the Spotlight.