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Harvard scientist wins prize for 3-D human genome sequencing method

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 01, 2011

Erez Lieberman Aiden, a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a visiting faculty member at Google, has won the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists for the development of a new method for sequencing the human genome in 3-D. Aiden is a polymath with talents that extend beyond molecular biology; he is perhaps best known for the collaborative effort that he led to build a tool that scours the text of 4 percent of the world’s books and provides insights into the evolution of culture, history, and society.

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