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…
On Apr. 27, 2023, researchers at Cornell University announced they had used ancient DNA extraction and analysis to…
On Apr. 17, 2023, a new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield at the Innovative Genomics…
On Sept. 27, 2022, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it had launched a program to better…
On Sept. 9, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it was providing approximately $185 million…
On May 19, 2021, Megan A. Cooper, MD, PhD, an associate professor of pediatrics at Washington University School…
On Apr. 19, 2021, the Mayo Clinic announced a study that bolstered evidence that colorectal cancer is often…
On Jan. 27, 2021, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center…
On Jan. 11, 2021, Editas Medicine announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had cleared the initiation…
On Oct. 27, 2020, researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced they had discovered a new…
On Aug. 6, 2020, the world’s first successfully cloned endangered Przewalski’s horse was born. Revive & Restore, San…
On Jul. 29, 2020, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project is a worldwide effort to understand how…
On Jun. 8, 2020, researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute announced they had discovered clues to…
On May 27, 2020, an analyses of the largest publicly available catalog of human genomic data revealed new…
On Feb. 21, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized marketing of the first test to…
On Jan. 9, 2020, Mayo Clinic announced it was creating a library of genomic sequencing data on 100,000…
On Apr. 11, 2018, Dr. Judith G. Hall, professor emerita of pediatrics and medical genetics at the University…
On Jan. 19, 2016, the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced…
In 2015, the 4D Nucleome Network was begun with the goal to develop and apply approaches to map…
On Jan 14, 2014, Illumina announced that it had broken the ‘sound barrier’ of human genomics by enabling…
On Jun. 26, 2013 researchers at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark announced…
On Apr. 13, 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the completion of the Human Genome Project…
On May 1, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new orphan drug Elelyso to treat…
On Jan. 31, 2011, the first international collaboration on Alzheimer’s disease genetics was launched. The International Genomics of…
On Jul. 1, 2010, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists announced a genetic map of…
On Aug. 20, 2007, researchers from Stanford University announced they had identified a pattern of gene expression shared…
On Apr. 5, 2007, Dr. Philippe Gros and his team of McGill University researchers identified a gene that…
In Jan. 2007, the sequencing of the horse genome project was completed. The initial goal of the Horse…
In 2007, Nancy Wexler, PhD, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science for her discovery of the…
On Nov. 20, 2006, the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced…
On Oct. 16, 2006, the Cancer Genome Atlas program, created by National Cancer Institute and the National Human…