Researchers at MIT and Harvard are partnering with Google to use its cloud platform to take genomic data and use it to find cures to diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

Google today announced the collaboration with the Broad Institute, a Cambridge, Mass.-based biomedical and genomic research center that partners with MIT and Harvard.

"To deal with genomic information at scale, the life science community needs new technologies to store, process, explore, and share," wrote Jonathan Bingham, Google Genomics product manager, in a blog post. "Through our collaboration with Broad Institute and our work with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health and the life science community, we believe we can make a difference in improving human health."

Using the cloud to store, analyze and share major amounts of data, will help make it easier for researchers to find answers among mounds of information, Bingham said.