On Feb. 21, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized marketing of the first test to…
On Jan. 30, 2020, the University of Washington (UW) announced that a new center was being created with…
On Jan. 9, 2020, Mayo Clinic announced it was creating a library of genomic sequencing data on 100,000…
On Jun. 13, 2019, the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley collaborated with GlaxoSmithKline…
On May 16, 2019, a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blueprint, published in “Frontiers and Genetics,” will…
On Sept. 27, 2018, researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD and the J. Craig Venter Institute…
On Aug. 22, 2018, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers with colleagues in Spain and Finland, described…
On Jul. 18, 2018, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics said that changing the DNA of a human embryo…
On Apr. 11, 2018, Dr. Judith G. Hall, professor emerita of pediatrics and medical genetics at the University…
On Jun. 1, 2016, scientists at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health announced proof that…
On Jan. 19, 2016, the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced…
On Jun. 18, 2015, a study, “The Ancestry and Affiliations of Kennewick Man” in the journal Nature, based…
On Sept. 12, 2014, the University of Iowa announced that alumnus Franklin D. Trueblood’s lifelong interest in medical…
On May 7, 2014, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) announced that they had engineered a bacterium…
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 May 22, 2013, researchers from the Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer Agency, the University of British…
On May 8, 2013, a research team from Texas A&M, led by Drs. Christopher Seabury and Ian Tizard…
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 Aug. 17, 2011, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine announced they had paired up medicines…
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…
In 2010, the Autism Sequencing Consortium (ASC) was founded by founded by Joseph D. Buxbauman and an international…
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…
On Feb. 7. 2007, the first draft of the horse genome sequence was deposited in public databases and…
In 2007, Nancy Wexler, PhD, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science for her discovery of the…
In 2007, Texas Biomed geneticists announced their discovery that a particular gene, VNN1, plays a major role in…
On Nov. 20, 2006, the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced…