To cure, prevent, or manage all disease by the end of the century, we need all voices at the table. At CZI, we know that building a future for everyone wouldn’t be possible without the incredible women on our science team. We’re honoring International Day of Women and Girls in…

Every day, biomedical journals publish roughly 4,000 new articles. The vast majority make incremental contributions to the body of scientific knowledge — but a handful signal greater change. Four such papers were published last week in Science. Each contains groundbreaking insights, and together, they mark a major milestone for biomedicine…

When an influenza pandemic began to sweep the globe in 1918, doctors and scientists had limited tools for investigating the deadly disease. Viruses were too small to see with the microscopes of the day. So people wrongly blamed the illness on what was visible under the lens, a bacteria they…

Supporting Rare Disease Infrastructure and Announcing Two New Patient-Partnered RFAs — February is Rare Disease Month, where the world shines a light on the 400 million people globally affected by over 7,000 rare diseases. Despite these overwhelming numbers, most people have never heard of these diseases. The vast majority of rare disease patients — isolated by the rarity of their diseases…

The human body is incredibly complex — each organ made of different tissues with trillions of cells and millions of proteins in each one that orchestrate every biological process. Biomedical research has advanced our understanding of how our bodies work, but it still only provides a snapshot of the human…

New Chair of CZI Science Advisory Board Weighs in on How Data Sharing Accelerates Science A doctor wants to better understand cardiovascular disease, the number one cause of death worldwide, and so, she focuses on her patients with heritable cardiomyopathies. …

Meta.org will sunset March 31, 2022 — At CZI, we work in areas where we think we can have an outsized impact through technology development, interdisciplinary research collaborations, and partnerships. With Meta, our goal was to give researchers, patient communities, science societies, and research organizations more ways to discover the research they need. We did this by…

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates just how swiftly science can move. Much of the credit belongs to scientists’ ingenuity and grit. Single-cell biology also comes into play. New single-cell datasets and tech tools that support their analysis and the dissemination of results are also helping unlock the mysteries of COVID-19. The…

On the surface, Cole and Bruce Trapnell’s research couldn’t be more different. Cole, a computer scientist, builds powerful software tools for studying single cells — the building blocks of life — by the millions. …