Announcement – The NIH Venture Program Announces First Award for the NBSxWGS (BEACONS) Initiative – (January 8, 2026)
Announcement: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund Venture Program initiative, Newborn Screening by Whole Genome Sequencing (NBSxWGS) Collaboratory, has announced its first award: BEACONS (Building Evidence and Collaboration for GenOmics in Nationwide Newborn Screening). NBSxWGS (BEACONS) is designed to assess the feasibility of integrating whole genome sequencing into the U.S. newborn
Article: Precisely Mapping Disease Variant Effects in CRISPR Cells
Precisely Mapping Disease Variant Effects in CRISPR Cells
Dedication of the Richard Maas Conference Room – (December 1, 2025)
The Genetics Division conference room in 457 Veritas Science Center was dedicated on 12.01.25 in memory of Richard Maas. Dick was a BWH trainee, and faculty member for more than 35 years. He was the Genetics Division Chief for 22 years. In the image is Phil Cole (interim Genetics Division
Press Release: Involving Work from the Philip Cole Lab – (December 1, 2025)
Article: Q&A: New discovery in cancer signaling reveals a potential path to more effective cancer drugs https://medical.brown.edu/news/2025-12-01/cancer-signaling-qa
Article: A tribute to Richard L. Maas (1954–2025)
Article link: www.jci.org/articles/view/201292
Dr. Robert C. Green TED Talk – (September 23, 2025)
Dr. Robert Green TED2025 talk is now live on TED.com. In the talk, Dr. Green reflects on how the BabySeq Project, launched 12 years ago, became the first to sequence the DNA of apparently healthy newborns. The lab discovered that a surprisingly high number of infants carried actionable risks, showing