On Dec. 13, 2005, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute launched a…
On Oct. 7, 2005, Jeffery Taubenberger, AH Reid, AE Krafft, Karen Bijwaard and Thomas Fanning published a report…
On Sept. 12, 2005, David H. Murdock announced a $1.5 billion scientific and economic revitalization project called the…
In 2005, Genome Alberta, was established in partnership with Genome Canada Industry Canada and the Province of Alberta,…
In Dec. 2004, David H. Murdock purchased the former Cannon Mills site at auction, future home of the…
On Sept. 29, 2004, a team from scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oregon Health &…
On April 25 known as DNA Day, is a day that commemorates the successful completion of the Human…
On Apr. 24, 2004, the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, opened its new 59,000-square-foot Bioinformatics Facility I The mission of…
On Jan. 28, 2004, the International Tomato Genome Sequencing Project was begun by an international consortium including participants…
On Jul. 8, 2003, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to U.S. outbreak of…
On May 28, 2003, the world’s first cloned horse named Prometea was born at the Laboratory of Reproductive…
On Apr. 14, 2003, The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, led in the U.S. the National Human Genome…
On Apr. 14, 2003, researchers at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science Centre in Vancouver announced they had sequenced…
In 2003, The Broad Institute was announced with a $100 million gift from Eli and Edythe Broad. Discussions…
On Dec. 5, 2002, the international Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the publication of a high-quality draft sequence…
On Oct. 29, 2002, an international research consortium launched a $100 million public-private effort to create the next…
On Jun. 8, 2002, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community pledged $5 million to the Translational Genomics Research…
In Jun. 2002, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on developing earlier diagnostics…
On May 14, 2002, the International Genomics Consortium (IGC) selected Phoenix for its headquarters. The mission of the…
In May 2002, Governor Hull signed SB 1270 for $5 million over 10 years for genomic research. Later…
On Feb. 7, 2002, an assembly of more than fifty leaders and visionaries in science, medicine, government and…
In 2002, Stanford geneticist Mark Kay uses a gene-therapy technique known as RNA inhibition to switch off genes…
On Nov. 19, 2001, researchers at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford announced they had identified a novel…
On May 24, 2001, Dr. Eldon Jupe and a team of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) researchers found…
On Apr. 24, 2001, Genome Canada announced $136 million in funding to support 22 large-scale research projects and…
In 2001, The February 16 issue of Science and February 15 issue of Nature contain the working draft…
On Jan. 11, 2001, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) researchers reported the production of the world’s first genetically…
On Jan. 10, 2001, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and University of Vermont researchers produced a clone of…
In 2001, human immunogenetics professor Dr. Gloria M. Dunston founded the National Human Genome Center at Howard University….
On Aug. 22, 2000, researchers in Kenya announced they had field-tested twelve lines of sweetpotato variety CPT 560…