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Ó³»­´«Ã½ Director Eric Lander is profiled in today's New York Times as a leader in science who co-founded a biomedical institute although his field was at first pure mathematics.

"Power in Numbers," the in the Times's Science section, starts with his childhood in Brooklyn, follows his path to Princeton and Harvard Business School, and spotlights pivotal moments in his career and in science.

Last year during the holiday season, we invited Ó³»­´«Ã½ researchers to submit scientific images with a seasonal flair. We thought it would be fun to revisit those images, resembling holiday lights, cracked ice, and tinsel. Enjoy this slideshow of festive imagery from the world of science as we count down to the new year!

Ten years after the human genome was first published, researchers have found new clues into the machinery that influences gene function. The team, led by Bradley Bernstein, an associate professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and senior associate member at the Ó³»­´«Ã½, and Aviv Regev, a core member at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ and associate professor at MIT, focused on chromatin, the complex of non-genetic material associated with DNA that drives gene expression, and specific regulators that orchestrate chromatin activity.

Scientists studying how mammals detect microbes have discovered new components in a crucial pathway that allows immune cells to detect viral invaders. Their research not only deepens the understanding of antiviral responses, but also uncovers connections to autoimmune diseases.