Affymetrix's SNP chips are used by gene hunters at the Broad Institute and Translational Genomics in Phoenix.
Meanwhile, Todd Golub at MIT and Harvard's Broad Institute has found a group of five genes involved in prostate cancer progression.
Mitchell Guttman, of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and soon-to-be faculty at Caltech, discovered an entirely new type of gene.
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"That beats Moore's Law hands down, " says Eric Lander, head of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, funded by billionaire Eli Broad.
Illumina machines can be tweaked to give data quickly, says Chad Nusbaum, the co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass.
Eric S. Lander of The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard topped the list of most influential researchers for the second year straight, recording 14 Hot Papers in 2011.
Future research will look at how the microbiome is "established in infants and maintained throughout life, " said Bruce Birren, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
"It is possible that the Toumai fossil is more recent than previously thought, " said Nick Patterson, a senior research scientist and statistician at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and lead author on the Nature paper.
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Working with patient samples collected by the MMRF and using DNA sequencers made by Illumina of San Diego, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard sequenced the genes of 38 myeloma tumors and the DNA of the patients in whom they were growing.
Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute, says that he thinks of the technology as being akin to digital photography: it was adopted because it was small and fast, but there was always the potential that it would replace film.
Mr. Gates, who had been looking for a way to connect the dots between his guests, incorporated the test into his show after querying some of his mentors, including David Altshuler and Mark Daly of the Broad Institute, a genomic research center affiliated with Harvard and MIT.
Eric Lander , who played a pivotal role in mapping the human genome and now heads the Broad Institute, says the gift is about "really empowering a generation of young scientists to think specifically about getting to the heart of diseases" including cancer, metabolic diseases like diabetes, and infection.
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At its violent extreme is a network of Islamist terrorist organisations which, according to Amir Rana of the Pak Institute for Peace Studies, breaks down into three broad parts.
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