Early skeleton map revealed how bones form in humans
On Nov 20, 2024, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and collaborators have used cutting-edge genomic techniques to…
Texas A&M Researchers Uncovered Secrets Of Horse Genetics For Conservation, Breeding
On Nov. 20, 2024, a research collaboration between the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences…
Scientists recreated mouse from gene older than animal life
On Nov. 15, 2024, researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the the University of Hong Kong…
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White House Released Report on Growing U.S. Biomanufacturing Capacity for the American Bioeconomy
On Nov. 15, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report on Building…
Researchers discovered unique genome folding in turtles
On Nov. 11, 2024, a team of researchers led by Iowa State University (ISU) have shown that as…
A melody of bases: How scaling allows us to set new bars
On Nov 8, 2024, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute celebrated a milestone of sequencing 50 Petabases of…
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Landmark agreement adopted for nation’s sharing of genetic data
On Nov. 3, 2024, the world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16, concluded with several landmark decisions, including…
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Sanofi commits $18 million to Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, and Morehouse School of Medicine to increase diversity in clinical studies
On Oct. 16, 2024, Sanofi announced it will contribute $18 million to three Historically Black Medical Schools to…
Human-Specific Genes Revealed Link Between Brain Growth and Autism
On Oct. 14, 2024, researchers have found a link between two human-specific genes and the gene SYNGAP1, a…
DNA from old hair confirmed macabre diet of 19th century Tsavo lions
On Oct. 11, 2024, a team of researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced DNA analysis of the…
Special ‘skinny genes’ linked to weight loss
On Oct. 8, 2024, a team of University of Essex researchers found that the secret to losing weight…
Scientists develop a new method to study gene function in cells and tissue
On Oct. 7, 2024, Columbia University researchers announced they had developed a new optical pooled screening approach called…
Food fussiness a largely genetic trait from toddlerhood to adolescence
On Sept. 20, 2024, a study led by researchers from University College London (UCL), King’s College London and…
Breast and ovarian cancer linked to thousands of gene variants
On Sept. 18, 2024, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators reported that they had identified…
study found genetic variant for hair graying, susceptibility to skin melanoma in horses
On Sep. 4, 2024, an international consortium led by scientists from Uppsala University in Sweden reported that the…
Genome of the last living wild horse species mapped
On Jun. 13. 2024, University of Minnesota researchers announced they have successfully mapped the complete genome of the…
Genome study shows how horses galloped into human history
On Jun. 7, 2024, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona announced an analysis of genome data from…
USDA published H5N1 influenza A virus genetic sequences on publicly available site
On Apr. 21, 2024, United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratories announced it had…
Using next-gen CRISPR tool, Gladstone scientists created unprecedented molecular map of human immune response
On Dec. 13, 2023, In a study of historic scale, scientists at Gladstone Institutes announced that they had…
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World’s largest genetic project unveiled incredible new data
On Nov. 30, 2023, in a momentous landmark for medical research, UK Biobank announced that it had unveiled…
Geneticists linked DNA of famed sled dog Balto to modern breeds
On Apr. 27, 2023, researchers at Cornell University announced they had used ancient DNA extraction and analysis to…
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Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield to lead $70 million initiative to edit the microbiome
On Apr. 17, 2023, a new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield at the Innovative Genomics…
Parkinson’s disease biomarker found
On Apr. 13, 2023, in an enormous leap forward in the understanding of Parkinson’s disease (PD), researchers announced…
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NIH established initiative to systematically investigate and establish function of every human gene
On Sept. 27, 2022, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it had launched a program to better…
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NIH provided $185 million for research to advance understanding of how human genome functions
On Sept. 9, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it was providing approximately $185 million…
Collaboration created world’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human disease
On Jul. 8, 2021, access to the world’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human…
Scientists discovered rare genetic condition that attacks kids’ immune systems
On May 19, 2021, Megan A. Cooper, MD, PhD, an associate professor of pediatrics at Washington University School…
Mayo Clinic study found colon cancer driven by hereditary gene mutations in 1 in 6 patients
On Apr. 19, 2021, the Mayo Clinic announced a study that bolstered evidence that colorectal cancer is often…
New genetic test for heart-attack risk launched for patients at Mass General
On Jan. 27, 2021, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center…
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FDA cleared initiation of the Editas Medicine’s EDIT-301 clinical trial using CRISPR/Cas12a gene editing
On Jan. 11, 2021, Editas Medicine announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had cleared the initiation…