On Jun. 1, 2016, scientists at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health announced proof that…
On May 19, 2016, President Barack Obama presented Mary-Claire King, Ph.D., a University of Washington professor of medicine…
On Feb. 17, 2016, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) awarded grants totaling $26,000,000 to…
On Jan. 12, 2016, a consortium of industry, government, and academia announced the launch of the Cancer MoonShot…
On Nov. 25, 2015, scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced they had sequenced…
On Oct. 21, 2015, the Omar Boraie Chair in Genomic Science was established at Rutgers Cancer Institute. The…
On Oct. 8, 2015, a research team reported the first ancient human genome sequence from Africa. The genome…
On Sept. 18, 2015, Stephen J. Elledge from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Evelyn M. Witkin from Rutgers…
On Aug. 12, 2015, the Cephalopod Sequencing Consortium announced the first-ever sequencing of the entire octopus genome. Researchers…
On Jun. 18, 2015, a study, “The Ancestry and Affiliations of Kennewick Man” in the journal Nature, based…
On Jun. 15, 2015, UAlberta scientists announced first whole genome sequence of bighorn sheep. With advances in DNA…
On May 1, 2015, Wei Yang, Ph.D, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, received the…
On Apr. 23, 2015, an international collaboration that involved researchers from Sweden, the United States, Canada, and Russia…
On Mar. 25, 2015, deCODE genetics published four landmark papers built on whole-genome sequence data from more than…
On Mar. 11, 2015, the National Health Service (NHS) announced that Patients in the NHS had begun receiving…
On Feb. 11, 2015, researchers announced they had sequenced the genomes of all 15 species of Darwin’s finches,…
In 2015, the 4D Nucleome Network was begun with the goal to develop and apply approaches to map…
On Dec. 10, 2014, Dr. Andras Nagy, from the University of Toronto and leader of Project Grandiose, announced…
On Nov. 27, 2014, two papers were published in Science that announced the completion and preliminary analyses of…
On Oct. 7, 2014, The Jackson Laboratory opened a state-of-the-art genomics research center on the campus of the…
On Sept. 10, 2014, an international team of scientists from Singapore, Thailand, China and Australia announced that they…
On Sept. 8, 2014, the University of Washington and UW Medicine announced that Mary-Claire King, UW professor of…
On Sept. 5, 2014, researchers led by Professor Ilkka Hanski at the University of Helsinki announced they had…
On Aug. 5, 2014, a team of scientists from around the world led by Baylor College of Medicine…
On Aug. 5, 2014, the genome sequence of the common cat was published in GigaScience. The DNA of…
On Jul. 17, 2014, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) a draft sequence of the bread wheat…
On May 7, 2014, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) announced that they had engineered a bacterium…
On Apr. 24, 2014 an international team of scientists announced they had deciphered the genetic code of the…
On Feb. 12, 2014, Scientists, led by ancient DNA expert Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen and…
On Jan. 29, 2014, Neanderthal genes were unearthed in modern humans by University of Washington scientists Benjamin Vernot…