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• Sports Genomics
  Elite athletes possess extraordinary physical abilities enabling them to reach peak performances and recover quickly. The question is, can we extract information from their biology and use it to boost the performance level and speed up recovery of every-day-athletes? Research in different laboratories over the past years has discovered potential connections between the composition of...

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• Press Release Natural barcodes enable better cell tracking
  April 24, 2018
• Community Annihilation: Horizontal Gene Transfer Runs Amok
  March 6, 2018
• Press Release Katia Bertoldi and Ting Wu Join The Wyss Institute
  February 21, 2018

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  Former DI Hoopster Searches For Athletic Boost In The Microbiome
  Former DI Hoopster Searches For Athletic Boost In The Microbiome was originally broadcast on WBUR’s Only a Game on August 4, 2017. The story features Wyss Core Faculty member George Church and Postdoctoral Fellow Jonathan Scheiman. The original broadcast story can be found here.

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  CRISPR-Cas: Molecular Recording
  In this video, Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School researchers George Church and Seth Shipman explain how they engineered a new CRISPR system-based technology that enables the chronological recording of digital information, like that representing still and moving images, in living bacteria. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  Disruptive: Sports Genomics
  With 100 trillion cells in the human body, bacteria outnumber our own human cells 2 to 1. These bacteria make up one’s microbiome, and particularly bacteria in our guts affect all our key organ functions. They play a role in our health, development and wellness, including endurance, recovery and mental aptitude. In this episode of...