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NIH Awards $38.5M to Fund Developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression Project

Funds will help add pediatric tissues and gene expression profiles to the project's tissue bank and database.

RADx Awards Minute Molecular Diagnostics $21.3M for Rapid PCR COVID-19 Test

Startup Minute Molecular Diagnostics' cartridge-based point-of-care PCR system can detect SARS-CoV-2 from nasal swabs in 15 minutes.

NIH Awards Ceres Nanosciences $8.2M for Wastewater-Based COVID-19 Surveillance

The Manassas, Virginia-based firm will collaborate with researchers at Emory University to develop a system for the Atlanta metro area.

NCI Director Sharpless Outlines Ideas to Aggressively Lower Cancer Deaths

At the AACR Annual Meeting, Sharpless said NCI should focus on improving early screening, access to trials, and development of advanced drugs to realize President Biden's goal of eradicating cancer.

NIH RADx Program Awards $29.3M to Increase SARS-CoV-2 Testing Capacity

The contracts are for two lateral flow rapid antigen tests, a laboratory-based test to detect and identify SARS-CoV-2 variants, and a rapid RT-PCR test.

Mar 3, 2021

Nonprofit Count Me In to Return Genomic Results to Patients With Rare Cancers
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Mar 2, 2021

NIH, Partners Commit $74.9M to New Phase of Alzheimer's Program

Feb 3, 2021

Meridian Bioscience Receives $5.5M From NIH to Expand SARS-CoV-2 Test Production

Dec 28, 2020

President Trump Signs FY 2021 Spending Bill to Boost NIH Budget 3 Percent

Dec 23, 2020

AnVIL Platform Makes Popular NHGRI GTEx Database Free to Download
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Dec 22, 2020

Congress Approves 3 Percent Increase in NIH Budget for Fiscal 2021

Dec 9, 2020

Day Zero Diagnostics Wins $300K NIH Grant to Refine HAI Outbreak Analysis Service

Nov 5, 2020

Jackson Laboratory Wins $3.4M NHGRI Grant to Study Workplace Genomic Testing

Oct 23, 2020

NIH Awards Research Triangle Institute $5.7M to Help Raise Awareness for All of Us Program

Sep 29, 2020

NIH Awards Two SBIR Grants Totaling $3.9M to Phase Genomics

Sep 18, 2020

NCI Awards InheRET $2M SBTT Grant to Improve Inherited Disease Detection

Sep 2, 2020

NIH Awards $129M to Nine Dx Firms for Rapid COVID-19 Diagnostics

Sep 2, 2020

Vibrent Health Lands $39M in NIH Funding to Continue All of Us Tech Center

Aug 31, 2020

HudsonAlpha Postdoc Wins NIH Grant for Alzheimer's Disease Research

Aug 13, 2020

Weill Cornell Using $1.5M NIH Grant to Predict Severity of COVID-19 Cases
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Aug 7, 2020

Illumina Sees Expanding Sequencing Market in COVID-19 Response, Despite Short-Term Woes
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Jul 22, 2020

Risk-Assessment Phase of eMERGE Looks to Diversify Polygenic Risk Scoring
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Jul 14, 2020

House Committee Votes for $5.5B Boost to NIH Budget

Jul 1, 2020

NIH Allocates $75M to Create eMERGE Risk Assessment Network

Jun 10, 2020

HelixBind Receives $3M NIH Grant to Expand Bloodstream Infection Dx Platform

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Transplant Tests Edited Pig Kidneys

The Associated Press reports a University of Alabama-Birmingham team transplanted genetically modified pig kidneys into a brain-dead human patient.

UK Changes Some Gene-Edited Crop Rules

A new law may enable gene-edited crops to be sold in the UK within about five years, New Scientist says.

Pill Works Against Omicron in Lab

Pfizer's antiviral pill to treat SARS-CoV-2 appears to work against the Omicron variant, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Nature Papers Find Genetic Risk Factor for Smell, Taste Loss in COVID-19; Analyze TB Granulomas

In Nature this week: genome-wide association study find locus linked to the risk COVID-19 patients losing their sense of taste or smell, and more.