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Media Mentions
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8/4/13
The El Paso Times profiles 2013 HSCI Internship Program participant Rebecca Soto, who worked in the Daley lab. Program director William Lensch is quoted. 7/31/13 Annual HSCI-CIRM junior faculty meetings spark new model of leukemia development; Harvard Gazette story features the collaboration between Amy Wagers, PhD, of HSCI, and Emmanuelle Passegué, PhD, of UCSF.7/24/13 Jay Bradner, MD, talks drug discovery, cancer, and targeting the epigenome with Stembook's Lisa Girard, PhD.
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Predicting Breast Cancer Risk
Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD, and the value of preventative research
 An international scientific collaborative led by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute's Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD, has discovered why women who give birth in their early twenties are less likely to eventually develop breast cancer than women who don't, triggering a search for a way to confer this protective state on all women. Continue reading.
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Mapping the Epigenome
Alexander Meissner, PhD, and the dynamics of DNA methylation
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Member News
- Alan Mullen, MD, PhD, joins HSCI as a Principal Faculty member and Peter Oettgen, MD, joins as an Affiliated Faculty member.
- Kevin Eggan, PhD, is a dad! His son was born early August 16.
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 HSCI Research Updates
- Audio Slideshow: Benjamin Ebert, MD, talks about the next stage of leukemia drug development.
- Alexander Meissner, PhD, demonstrates that stem cells prepare early for differentiation.
- Jayaraj Rajagopal, MD, finds the origin of airway mucous.
- Laurence Daheron, PhD, and David Scadden, MD, collaborate with MGH researchers to build long-lasting functional blood vessels.
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Meissner's team, led by graduate student Michael Ziller, mapped nearly all of the 28-million CpG sites among the 3-billion nucleotides that make up human DNA, and then wanted to know which of these 28 million are dynamic or static across all cell types.