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The BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorespository has partners with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on a $4.9 million microbiome project funded by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC). The award is part of $18 million in capital infrastructure grants given by the MLSC... Read More

The Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) was featured in a recent issue of JAMA. The Medical News & Perspectives piece on NHS covered its beginnings and its public health legacy. NHS is one of several prestigious cohort studies whose specimens are housed at the BWH/Harvard Cohorts... Read More

The specimens of four large cohort studies, whose samples are housed at the BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorespository, provide rich data for researchers, including DNA samples that have been genotyped. But the different genome-wide association studies (GWAS) used across the studies made... Read More

We are pleased to share results of an exciting research enterprise between the BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository’s epidemiologists and population scientists and basic scientists at Washington University: Clonal haematopoiesis harbouring AML-associated mutations is ubiquitous in... Read More

The BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository is undertaking a vast amount of microbiome research, and we are pleased to share our first publication from this work: Relating the metatranscriptome and metagenome of the human gut. The paper discusses a protocol that allows subjects to... Read More

Evaluating key hormone levels may help clinicians more accurately predict a woman’s risk for breast cancer, research suggests. Using samples from the Nurses’ Health Study, scientists analyzed breast cancer risk among 473 postmenopausal women diagnosed with invasive breast... Read More

Blood samples from the BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository have helped researchers identify an early sign of pancreatic cancer. Researchers analyzed samples collected years earlier from 1,500 people participating in cohort health studies, looking for more than 100 different... Read More

Analysis of samples from 9,623 women in the Nurses’ Health Study, 6,379 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, and 21,426 women in the Women’s Genome Health Study indicates that a higher genetic risk of obesity may increase the adverse effects of fried foods on body... Read More