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10,000 Immunomes Project Establishes Initial Baseline for Healthy Immune System

Using the publicly available ImmPort database, researchers standardized and analyzed immune-related data for more than 10,300 healthy individuals.

Q&A: Sam Shekar Discusses Northrop Grumman's Plans for Genomics Market
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Last month, during a forum organized by US News & World Report, Amy Caro, vice president of health IT programs at Northrop

Northrop Grumman Gets $8.4M from USDHS to Field-Test PCR-Based Biothreat Detector
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Northrop Grumman received the award under the BioWatch Gen-3 System Performance Demonstration Contract, and said that the contract could be worth up to $37 million over three years.

Northrop Grumman Developing PCR-Based Biodefense Dx System Under $9.6M BARDA Contract
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Agilent Technologies, Columbia University, and others are collaborating on development of the system, which will be based on MassTag PCR.

3M, Northrop Grumman Get $15.8M to Develop MDx for Biological Weapons

The firms won grants to develop integrated diagnostic systems used to counter natural or man-made biological threats.
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Nucleotide Base Detected on Near-Earth Asteroid

Among other intriguing compounds, researchers find the nucleotide uracil, a component of RNA sequences, in samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, as they report in Nature Communications.

Clinical Trial Participants, Investigators Point to Importance of Clinical Trial Results Reporting in Canadian Study

Public reporting on clinical trial results is crucial, according to qualitative interviews with clinical trial participants, investigators, and organizers from three provinces appearing in BMJ Open.

Old Order Amish Analysis Highlights Autozygosity, Potential Ties to Blood Measures

Researchers in BMC Genomics see larger and more frequent runs-of-homozygosity in Old Order Amish participants, though only regional autozygosity coincided with two blood-based measures.

Suicidal Ideation-Linked Loci Identified Using Million Veteran Program Data

Researchers in PLOS Genetics identify risk variants within and across ancestry groups with a genome-wide association study involving veterans with or without a history of suicidal ideation.