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At the recent Applied Pharmaceutical Chemistry meeting in Boston Ben Munoz, director of Medicinal Chemistry within the Ó³»­´«Ã½â€™s Chemical Biology Platform, spoke about the exciting work he and others at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ have been doing for the past year screening the Ó³»­´«Ã½â€™s unique small molecule library against targets in infectious and neglected diseases, like malaria and Chagas disease.

Many people know the Ó³»­´«Ã½ as a leader in the study of human genetics. But did you know that as part of this work our researchers look into the genomes of other animals? The following video highlights the work Ó³»­´«Ã½ scientists are doing to unravel cancer genes found in the purebred Golden Retriever. The goal of the project is not only to find genes that cause cancer in these dogs but also to make a link with similar cancer-related genes in people. 

Our parents give us about 30 new mutations in our genomes, new research from the tells us, and whether those mutations come from Mom or Dad varied more than expected.