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Standards, Regulation, Funding Move Bioinformatics in 2022, But Hurdles to Precision Medicine Remain
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The year saw significant progress in clinical and research areas, but vendors and healthcare providers continue to struggle with clinical decision support and interoperability.

Center for Multiomic Human Brain Atlas to Tackle Methylation, Gene Expression for $500M NIH Project
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The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is leading this effort as a key part of NIH's new BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network.

Allen Institute Launches $173M NIH-Funded Coalition to Create Human, Primate Brain Cell Atlases
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The organizers are likening the international collaboration, which will also create atlases of the macaque and marmoset brain, to a Human Genome Project for the brain.

NIH Launches $500M Effort to Map Cells of the Human Brain

The BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) will rely heavily on single-cell sequencing and bioinformatics to create brain cell atlases and maps of cell interactions.

FASEB, ABRF Preparing for NIH Data Management, Sharing Plan

FASEB has launched an initiative called DataWorks, while an ABRF working group is developing templates for core labs to use.

Mar 10, 2022

Fluent BioSciences Wins $1.7M SBIR Grant from NIH to Commercialize Single-Cell Tech

Feb 15, 2022

Genomenon Wins $1.7M NIH SBIR Grant to Accelerate Variant Interpretation

Jan 31, 2022

Meridian Bioscience Gets Additional $2.5M NIH Award to Develop Revogene Respiratory Panel

Oct 6, 2021

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

Apr 23, 2021

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

Apr 21, 2021

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

Apr 11, 2021

NCI Director Sharpless Outlines Ideas to Aggressively Lower Cancer Deaths

Apr 6, 2021

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

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

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Study Points to Tuberculosis Protection by Gaucher Disease Mutation

A mutation linked to Gaucher disease in the Ashkenazi Jewish population appears to boost Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance in a zebrafish model of the lysosomal storage condition, a new PNAS study finds.

SpliceVault Portal Provides Look at RNA Splicing Changes Linked to Genetic Variants

The portal, described in Nature Genetics, houses variant-related messenger RNA splicing insights drawn from RNA sequencing data in nearly 335,700 samples — a set known as the 300K-RNA resource.

Automated Sequencing Pipeline Appears to Allow Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Lineage Detection in Nevada Study

Researchers in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics describe and assess a Clear Labs Dx automated workflow, sequencing, and bioinformatic analysis method for quickly identifying SARS-CoV-2 lineages.

UK Team Presents Genetic, Epigenetic Sequencing Method

Using enzymatic DNA preparation steps, researchers in Nature Biotechnology develop a strategy for sequencing DNA, along with 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, on existing sequencers.