departmentDepartment of Genetics
The Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School specializes in computational, chromosomal, and developmental genetics. Advances in genomic technologies allow researchers to move from the old paradigm of studying individual genes in single cells to studying the entire chromosome in cells as they grow into tissues and organs.
Affiliation: Harvard Medical SchoolWeb site: http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/
Recent articles about Department of Genetics
Harvard researchers selected for National Academy of Sciences membership (April 29, 2008)NAS elects five Harvard faculty members (Harvard University Gazette, May 3, 2007)
Did ancestral humans, chimps interbreed? (Harvard University Gazette, May 18, 2006)
Lab moves genomic testing into the clinic (Focus, December 2, 2005)
Bulyk searches for DNA on-off switches (Harvard University Gazette, November 3, 2005)
Genome scanning technique spots disease risk (Focus, August 25, 2005)
Hearing loss tied to heart disease (Harvard University Gazette, March 10, 2005)
RNA-making apparatus seen to uncoil and recoil DNA (Focus, January 13, 2005)
Researchers identify gene's role in suppressing longevity (Children, January 1, 2005)
Scientists identify hundreds of worm genes that regulate fat storage (Massachusetts General Hospital, January 15, 2003)
Formin gene may explain a common cause of female infertility (Focus, December 13, 2002)
Putting bacteria to work (Harvard University Gazette, October 17, 2002)
Resistance mutation found for Gleevec (Focus, August 30, 2002)
Medical student engineers protein to dissolve blood clots (Harvard Public Health Now, August 9, 2002)
Technique enables quick accounting of gene function (Focus, December 14, 2001)
Comprehensive set of vision genes discovered (Harvard Medical School, November 30, 2001)
Anthrax immunity gene found in mice (Focus, October 12, 2001)
Gene initiates joint formation (Focus, February 23, 2001)
In human genome race, competition spurred better science (Focus, February 23, 2001)
