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Ultimate Destiny

Study illuminates how undifferentiated cells commit to their biological fate.

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Got Resistance?

When it comes to TB, the computer has the answer.

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Decoding Cancer's Signature

A new algorithm can ID patients with a tumor-causing defect found in multiple cancers that's treatable with a common drug. 

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The Doctor and the Machine

To err is human. Can artificial intelligence eliminate mistakes in diagnosis, treatment and more?

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Zip Code or Genetic Code?

In the largest study of U.S. twins, researchers use insurance records to tease out effects of genes, environment in hundreds of diseases

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Faculty join NIH HuBMAP

DBMI Faculty to Lead Creation of Informatics Tools for Major NIH Effort to Assemble Molecular Atlas of Human Tissues

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UDN Scales Up

Grants to improve and accelerate the diagnosis of rare and undiagnosed conditions were made to academic medical centers across the nation Monday. The new awards are part of the second phase of the National Institutes of Health’s Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN).

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Master's Program Welcomes New Cohort

This month the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School welcomed the next cohort of students in the Master of Biomedical Informatics (MBI) program.

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Getting into a Cell’s Head

Capturing a cell’s behavior as a process that foretells its future has eluded scientists. No more.