Selected Press Accounts Highlighting Gerstein Lab Work

2026

• With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint (NY Times)
• How Many LLMs Does it Take to Reason Through a Decision? (Yale Release)

2025

• Uncovering the hidden cellular connections that bridge aging and disease (Yale News)
• Timing is everything: Finding treatment windows in genetic brain disease. (Yale News)
• Can AI Predict the Future? (Yale Medicine Magazine)
• Can quantum computing crack the biggest challenges in health? (Nature Medicine)

2024

• Selected Press Coverage for the ABCD paper in Cell (Overview)
• AI tool that predicts gene activity could open path for disease treatments (Washington Post)
• Selected Press Coverage for the PEC2 publication package in Science (Overview)
• LLMs predict protein phases (Nature Methods)
• As 23andMe Struggles, Concerns Surface About Its Genetic Data (NY Times)

2023

• Selected Press Coverage for EN-TEx paper in Cell (Overview)
• 2023 ISCB accomplishments by a senior scientist award (Write up in Bioinformatics)
  • ISCB Award (Yale Release) (#2)

2022

• How hybrid working took hold in science (Nature)
• Hospital and Drugmaker Move to Build Vast Database of New Yorkers’ DNA (NY Times)
• Blockchain not just for bitcoin: It can secure and store genomes, too (Yale Release)
  • How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really? (NY Times)

2021

• Digital secrets of successful lab management (Nature)
• Biology begins to tangle with quantum computing (Nature Methods)

2020

• Lab contributions to the '20 PCAWG rollout (Overview)
• Selected Press Coverage for Gursoy et al Cell 2020 (Overview)

2019

• Comparison of DTC based ancestry result for identical twins (Overview)

2018

• Lab contributions to the '18 PsychENCODE rollout (Overview)
• Inauguration of the Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science (Yale Release)
• Long-awaited STEM report calls for new research institutes (YDN)
• Put your email inbox on a low-spam diet (Nature)

2017

• Putting the precise in precision medicine (Yale Medicine)
• Is Genetic Privacy a Myth (Proto Magazine)
• Cybersecurity for the travelling scientist (Nature)

2016

• STAT Series on Analyzing the Personal Genome of Carl Zimmer
• Selected Press Coverage for Harmanci et al Nature Methods 2016 (Overview)
• Don’t forget parents when celebrating a personal genome (Yale Press Release)

2014

• Selected Press Coverage for the 2014 modENCODE Nature papers (Overview)
• Geneticists tap human knockouts (Nature)

2013

• Selected Press Coverage for Khurana et al Science 2013 (Overview)
• Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy (The New York Times)
• Big biology: The 'omes puzzle (Nature)

2012

• Lab contributions to the '12 ENCODE rollout (Overview)
  • Yale team finds order amidst the chaos within the human genome; Mom and Dad's contributions counted and fossil DNA not dead after all (Yale Press Release)
• Yale study proves nobody is genetically perfect (Yale Press Release)
  • Lessons from 1000 Genomes: Small differences matter (Yale Press Release)
  • Genome news flash: We’re all a little bit broken (The Washington Post)
• It Started With ‘Genome’ - ‘Omes’ Proliferate in Science (The New York Times)

2011

• DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data (The New York Times)
• National Laboratories and Universities Team up to Build a Community Systems Biology Knowledgebase (U.S. DOE Office of Science)
• $11 Million grant makes Yale a national center for study of rare diseases (Yale Press Release)

2010

• Genomics, Proteomics, Cellular Immunity, and Anti-Matter (Futures in Biotech, TWiT.TV)
• Cybersecurity: How safe are your data? (Nature)
• Mystery RNA spawns gene-activating peptides (Nature)
• AAAS Honors Four Yale Faculty for Their Scientific Research (Yale Press Release)
• Massive Molecular Study of the Roundworm Reveals Nature's Complexity (Yale Press Release)
• Yale Scientists Explain Why Computers Crash But We Don't (Yale Press Release)
  • Linux vs. Genome in Network Challenge (Wired)
• Molecular Middle Managers Make More Decisions Than Bosses (Yale Press Release)

2009

• Yale Researchers Create New Way To Locate Big Genetic Variants (Yale Press Release)
• Mixing Genomics and Geography Yields Insights into Life and Environment (Yale Press Release)

2008

• Now: The Rest of the Genome (The New York Times)

2007

• Genome Sequence Shows What Makes Bacteria Dangerous for Troops in Iraq (Yale Press Release)

2003

• Yale Scientists Report Evolution Preserved in Pseudogenes (Yale Press Release)

2001

• Yale Scientists Receive $15 Million Grant for Human Genome Research (Yale Press Release)

2000

• Description of our research featured in C&E News (local copy)

1998

• Donaghue Investigator Program Awards New Grants to Yale For Research on Spinal Cord Injuries, Cancer Metastasis, Elderly (Yale Press Release)

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• A Google News Query, which returns many of the mentions of the lab in the press (albeit with some noise)