Broad playing early role in Microbiome Project
A Cambridge research institution is part of a new initiative to explore the collective genomes of the assorted bacteria, fungi and other microbes that live in or on our bodies.
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is one of four centers chosen for an early phase of the Human Microbiome Project, the National Institutes of Health’s five-year, $115 million effort to understand how microorganisms affect human health and disease. The Broad, along with the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Rockville, Md., will build a framework and data resources for sequencing microbe genomes. The initial one-year project is funded at $8.2 million.
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