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Source: NHGRI-Related News - September 18, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
NIH Awards HTG Molecular Additional $1.01M to Continue Development of Targeted Sequencing Product Concept
From HTG Molecular Diagnostics (Source: NHGRI-Related News)
Source: NHGRI-Related News - September 4, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
UNC partners with NIH to explore genomic testing for newborns
From UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (Source: NHGRI-Related News)
Source: NHGRI-Related News - September 4, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
UCSF Receives $4.5M to Study Value of Gene Sequencing in Newborns
From University of California, San Francisco (Source: NHGRI-Related News)
Source: NHGRI-Related News - September 4, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Children's Mercy Receives $5 Million NIH Grant for 50-Hour Genomic Diagnosis in Critically Ill Newborns
From Children's Mercy Hospital (Source: NHGRI-Related News)
Source: NHGRI-Related News - September 4, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Boston Children's, Brigham and Women's receive $6 million for genome sequencing in newborns
From Boston Children's Hospital (Source: NHGRI-Related News)
Source: NHGRI-Related News - September 4, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Brigham and Women's Hospital Awarded $6 Million to Study Genome Sequencing in Newborns
From Brigham and Women's Hospital (Source: NHGRI-Related News)
Source: NHGRI-Related News - September 4, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Researchers find "grammar" plays key role in activating genes
From UC San Francisco (Source: NHGRI-Related News)
Source: NHGRI-Related News - August 13, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Researchers Create Method to Rapidly Identify Specific Strains of Illnesss
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and George Washington University (GWU) have developed a method to rapidly identify pathogenic species and strains causing illnesses, such as pneumonia, that could help lead to earlier detection of disease outbreaks and pinpoint effective treatments more quickly. The findings are featured online in the journal Genome Research. This research was funded by NHGRI.� (Source: NHGRI-Related News)
Source: NHGRI-Related News - July 10, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
UF Health receives $3.7 million to bring personalized medicine to more Floridians
Personalized medicine at University of Florida (UF) Health celebrates its first successful year helping heart patients with news of major funding from the National Institutes of Health that will advance the program to more patients and health care providers across the state. A $3.7 million grant to UF Health is one of only three awarded by the National Human Genome Research Institute to support projects that show how patients' individual genetic profiles may be used to better tailor clinical treatments. (Source: NHGRI-Related News)
Source: NHGRI-Related News - July 1, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Host of PBS Series Finding Your Roots, To Appear at Smithsonian Event
The Smithsonian Associates will present "The Genomic Journey, Searching for Your Roots" featuring Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of the PBS series Finding Your Roots. During the program, Gates will trace the genetic histories of Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Gwen Ifill, host of Washington Week, live on stage Thursday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Baird Auditorium at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The program, organized by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Human Genome Research Institute...
Source: NHGRI-Related News - June 28, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
A 700.000 year old horse gets its genome sequenced
Scientists at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (University of Copenhagen) have sequenced the, so far, oldest genome from a prehistoric creature. They have done so by sequencing and analyzing short pieces of DNA molecules preserved in bone-remnants from a horse that had been kept frozen for the last 700.000 years in the permafrost of Yukon, Canada. By tracking the genomic changes that transformed prehistoric wild horses into domestic breeds, the researchers have revealed the genetic make-up of modern horses with unprecedented details. The spectacular results are now published in the intern...
Source: NHGRI-Related News - June 27, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Whole exome sequencing identifies recessive gene as cause of deafness
Sequencing the whole exome (the protein-coding part of the gene) enabled researchers led by those at Baylor College of Medicine to identify a recessive gene mutation associated with deafness. In a report in the American Journal of Human Genetics, the international consortium of researchers described how whole exome sequencing of three hearing-impaired individuals from three unrelated Pakistani families identified two separate missense mutations in a gene known as KARS, which codes for a protein called lysl-tRNA synthetase, and how they ascertained that these particular gene changes could be damaging. The research was funde...
Source: NHGRI-Related News - June 13, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Coelacanth genome surfaces
An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of a creature whose evolutionary history is both enigmatic and illuminating: the African coelacanth. A sea-cave dwelling, five-foot long fish with limb-like fins, the coelacanth was once thought to be extinct. A living coelacanth was discovered off the African coast in 1938, and since then, questions about these ancient-looking fish - popularly known as "living fossils" - have loomed large. Coelacanths today closely resemble the fossilized skeletons of their more than 300-million-year-old ancestors. Its genome confirms what many researchers had long suspected: gen...
Source: NHGRI-Related News - April 17, 2013 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
