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Person getting ready to weigh themselves on a scale.

Calculating genetic risk for obesity

Powerful new tool may enable opportunities for biological understanding, clinical interventions

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DateApril 18, 2019April 17, 2019

Arvind Subramaniam co-authored a recent paper with Philippe Cluzel that answers a long-standing mystery of the genetic code. He and Cluzel found that, under stressful conditions, certain sequences manufacture proteins efficiently, while others — which are ostensibly identical — produce almost none.

A hidden genetic code

Researchers identify key differences in seemingly synonymous parts of the structure

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DateJanuary 18, 2013April 18, 2019

A team of researchers led by Hopi Hoekstra, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology and molecular and cellular biology, studied two species of mice — oldfield mice and deer mice — and identified four regions in their genome that appear to influence the way they dig burrows.

Digging yields clues

Biologists connect burrowing behavior in mice to genes

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DateJanuary 16, 2013March 15, 2019

Two panel discussions, organized by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, examined the “promise and perils” of creating digital repositories of genetic records. The second session, moderated by Jonathan Zittrain (far right, standing), examined the policy implications of an individual’s right to access, control, and interpret his or her own genetic data. Panelists included Michelle Caggana (from left), Dan Vorhaus, John Schumann, Gaia Bernstein, and Art Beaudet.

Ethics and genetics in the digital age

Can privacy, individual autonomy, and scientific enterprise coexist?

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DateApril 21, 2011June 14, 2019