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Sticker Shock

Pre-packaged brand version of compounded medication to prevent preterm births costs 5,000 percent more

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Gender Patterns

Largest study to date reveals gender-specific risk of autism occurrence among siblings

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Gene Screen

Large genomic databases hold clues linking genetic mutations to future disease risk

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New MBI Cohort Welcomed

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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DBMI DevOps

Informatics infrastructure enabling DBMI research

Washington DC - Foggy Bottom: National Academy of Sciences - Einstein Memorial | Photo by Wally Gobetz

Making "Open" the Default Setting for Science

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently selected DBMI’s Alexa McCray, Professor of Medicine, to chair a committee on broadening access to the results of scientific research.

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Resistance Fighters

Maha Farhat and Michael Baym come together in DBMI to stem the rising tide of drug resistance

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Bull's Eye

Harvard Medical School's Precision Medicine Symposium tackled a range of topics, including making sense of new data, the role of citizen-scientists and collaborations between industry and academia.

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Damage Control

The survival of the human species in the face of a high number of incoming genetic mutations has remained an important problem in evolutionary biology.