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By Tina Hesman Saey

- More than 2 years ago

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After a day of computer programming and poring over genetic data, Pardis Sabeti relaxes her brain by writing rock songs.

Pardis Sabeti sorts through reams of genetic information to find genes that have been shaped by natural selection to resist disease. Olivier Douliery

Born in Tehran, Sabeti is a computational biologist at Harvard and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.