Tag: Pardis Sabeti

  • Health

    Using AI as a pandemic crystal ball

    MGH, Broad researchers develop Big Data tool that can predict which COVID variants will likely become dominant.

    8–11 minutes
    Illustration of binary code overlaying coronavirus-shaped globe.
  • Science & Tech

    New gene-transport system gets more drugs to sick muscles

    A newly engineered gene-delivery system has the potential to make gene therapy for muscle diseases both safer and more effective for patients.

    5–7 minutes
    Muscle neuron.
  • Science & Tech

    This is what a scientist looks like

    Project aims to give young students real-life STEM role models

    12–18 minutes
    Some of the researchers featured in the "I Am A Scientist" project.
  • Campus & Community

    Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next

    Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.

    9–13 minutes
    Doctors.
  • Health

    COVID test debacle: ‘We hoped it would go away before it reached us’

    Massachusetts may need 1.4 million COVID-19 tests and ramp up to tens of thousands given a day, Harvard experts said.

    4–6 minutes
    SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
  • Science & Tech

    New details about mumps outbreaks of 2016‒17

    Studying the mumps virus genomes in 2016 and 2017 filled in gaps about how the disease was spreading in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the U.S.

    5–7 minutes
    Graphic of spread of viruses.
  • Campus & Community

    Future M.D.’s passion to help comes in many forms

    Cynthia Luo, who’s concentrating in both molecular and cellular biology and English, was inspired by her time in Uganda to become a physician and improve global health.

    4–6 minutes
    Cynthia Luo in front of stairs
  • Health

    Genetic sleuthing

    An international team of researchers led by Harvard’s Pardis Sabeti have sequenced the genomes of hundreds of samples of Lassa fever and are using that data to try to unlock the virus’ secrets.

    2–4 minutes
  • Health

    Sequencing Ebola’s secrets

    A global team from Harvard University, the Broad Institute, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and other institutions sequenced more than 200 additional Ebola samples to capture the fullest picture yet of how the virus is transmitted and changes over a long-term outbreak.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Three appointed as investigators

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute appoints Levi Garraway, Pardis Sabeti, and Tobias Walther as investigators.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Ebola genomes sequenced

    A team of researchers from the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and elsewhere has sequenced and analyzed dozens of Ebola virus genomes in the present outbreak. Their findings could have important implications for rapid field diagnostic tests.

    4–7 minutes
  • Health

    Clues to cholera resistance

    Researchers have long understood that genetics can play a role in susceptibility to cholera, but a team of Harvard scientists is now uncovering evidence of genetic changes that might also help protect some people from contracting the deadly disease.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    New views on deadly diseases

    Harvard researchers are challenging the popular portrayal of Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers. In a new paper in Science, researchers present evidence that the diseases may be more common — and much older — than previously thought.

    4–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Sabeti named Young Global Leader

    Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Pardis Sabeti has been selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Dealing with data

    A computer program developed by brothers David and Yakir Reshef, together with Professors Michael Mitzenmacher and Pardis Sabeti, enables researchers to scour massive data sets for meaningful relationships that might otherwise have been missed.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Tracking our traits

    Researchers devise method to pinpoint key genetic variations under positive natural selection that may impact human health.

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    Tracking genetic traits over time

    Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history, but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they…

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Pardis Sabeti awarded Packard Fellowship

    The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has recently awarded Pardis Sabeti, an assistant professor in the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University, its Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The $875,000 fellowship will be paid over five years beginning in November. As one of 20 Packard Fellows selected, Sabeti will be invited to an…

    1–2 minutes