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In the search for genetic sources of disease risk or genes that control traits, scientists can look for a single mutant gene that causes a rare, Mendelian disease or common DNA alterations that influence the trait in the broader population. But often those approaches remain separate.

Steve Hyman, director of the ӳ����ý’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, was recently featured in WBUR’s special series “.” The series, which will run through July 24, aims to report “from the front lines of neuroscience,” and is exploring issues and trends in neurological and psychiatric research.

The Wall Street Journal this weekend featured an by ӳ����ý deputy director David Altshuler and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the director of Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. In the piece, Altshuler and Gates present a thoughtful perspective on the history of race as a concept, and the misguided tendency to “view race strictly through the lens of genetic inheritance”.

The ӳ����ý’s Office of Education and Outreach, in collaboration with the Cancer Program, is putting tools used for cancer research in students’ hands.