New to all this? You’re exactly who we built it for.
You don’t need to know any biology to understand this site. Every hard word is underlined — tap it and a plain explanation pops up. Turn on student mode and the pop-ups lead with the simplest version.
1. Start with the body
Pick a part of the body. You’ll see what it does and what can go wrong with it — heart, lungs, brain, gut, blood, and more.
2. Diseases you’ve probably heard of
Familiar names are a good place to begin — you already have a feel for them.
3. The big idea behind D2I2
Every cell in your body carries a set of instructions written in DNA. A gene is one instruction. Small differences in these instructions, called a , are part of why people are different from each other.
Here is the problem D2I2 is about. Almost all the science that links genes to disease was done on people whose families come from Europe. Which gene versions are common depends on , so a risk score or a test built for one group can quietly misread another.
South Asians are nearly a quarter of the world's people but a tiny slice of this research. That gap is the blind spot. Mapping it, and helping close it, is the whole point of this project.
These questions genuinely don’t have answers yet.
Real research isn’t only in textbooks. Here are open problems where a South-Asian study would matter — the kind of thing you could work on one day.