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 Jun. 15, 2015, UAlberta scientists announced first whole genome sequence of bighorn sheep. With advances in DNA…
On Mar. 11, 2015, the National Health Service (NHS) announced that Patients in the NHS had begun receiving…
On Mar. 3, 2015, the first-ever World Birth Defects Day was observed with the support of 12 organizations….
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 Apr. 4, 2014, the Alabama Institute of Medicine received $1 Million gift from an anonymous Birmingham resident…
On Jan 14, 2014, Illumina announced that it had broken the ‘sound barrier’ of human genomics by enabling…
On Jun. 26, 2013, scientists announced they have sequenced the oldest genome to date—and shaken up the horse…
On May 22, 2013, a research team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced they had sequenced…
On May 22, 2013, Canadian and Swedish scientists released genome sequences of two of the most economically important…
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 Jun. 3, 2012, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues have published the most comprehensive…
On May 31, 2012, the tomato genome was published in Nature, culminating years of work by the Tomato…
On May 1, 2012, Pfizer and Protalix BioTherapeutics announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved…
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 Jul. 1, 2009, researchers from the University of Adelaide and Landcare Research in New Zealand have identified…
On Mar. 11, 2009, researchers announced they had DNA evidence that the two individuals recovered from the 2007…
On Feb. 4, 2009, the presidents of the MGH, MIT and Harvard University announced the creation of the…
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…