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Mount Sinai Health Launches Center for Undiagnosed Diseases With $3.3M NIH Grant

Besides making diagnoses, the newest center in the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network plans to undertake "research-based characterization" of patients with immunological disorders.

Long COVID Linked to Ongoing Immune Activation, Cell Damage in Proteomics Study

In individuals with active Long COVID at the six-month mark, researchers flagged blood protein profiles linked to complement system activation and thrombo-inflammation.

Fetal Tissue Single-Cell RNA Analysis Reveals New Macrophage Subtypes

Investigators used single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze nearly 300,000 immune cells from 367 human embryo tissue samples from different developmental stages.

Simulated Weightlessness Alters T Cell Gene Expression

Researchers saw transcriptional changes in T cells from healthy individuals exposed to space-like weightlessness, potentially explaining immunodeficiency in astronauts.  

Allen Institute Developing Gene Panel Based on Longitudinal scRNA-seq Analytics Platform
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In a new paper, the Allen Institute for Immunology's PALMO bioinformatics platform identified 220 likely "unique" biomarkers for COVID-19, flu, and other immune disorders.

Feb 14, 2023

Modell Foundation, Veritas Strike Deal to Test Thousands for Primary Immunodeficiency

Oct 19, 2022

Black Death Sequencing Study Reveals Impacts on Human Immune Evolution, Autoimmune Disease

Jun 15, 2022

Allen Institute, Google Release Multiomic Immunology Research Portal
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Mar 28, 2022

Sequencing Leads to Diagnoses in Significant Subset of Immune Conditions in NIAID Program

Feb 19, 2021

Genetic Study of Skin Pigmentation in African Americans Uncovers Links to Vitamin D Deficiency

Jan 4, 2021

Enpicom Sees Personalized Medicine Coming Into Focus After Busy 2020
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Nov 11, 2020

HTG to Expand Disease Reach With New Whole-Transcriptome Profiling Product Mid-2021
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Sep 14, 2020

Autoimmunity Insights Gleaned From GWAS of Immune Cell Traits

Sep 9, 2020

Adaptive Biotechnologies, Takara Bio T Cell Receptor Sequencing Methods Rank High in Benchmarking Study
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Aug 4, 2020

Sequencing Uncovers Mutation, Treatment for Rare Genetic Autoimmune Disorder

May 7, 2020

Primary Immunodeficiency Study Highlights Monogenic, Common Variant Disease Contributors

Apr 20, 2020

Blueprint Genetics, NICER Consortium Developing Genetic Test for Immunologic, Hematologic Disorders

Feb 13, 2020

Blood Vitamin D Levels Tied to Dozens of Genetic Variants in UK Biobank GWAS

Jan 20, 2020

Multi-Disease Diagnostic Platform Project Receives €22.5M in EU Funding

Dec 19, 2019

Blood Cell Transcriptome Atlas Enables Study of Immune Disorders

Jun 13, 2019

GlaxoSmithKline, UC's Doudna Establish $67M Genomics, CRISPR Research Lab

May 9, 2019

Enpicom, DDL to Partner on Immunogenomics Sequencing, Analysis

Mar 7, 2019

NYCKidSeq Project Aims to Improve Communication of Genomic Test Results
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Jan 30, 2019

iReceptor Plus Consortium Wants to Improve Immunological Data Sharing
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Jan 22, 2019

Circulating B Cell Antibody Repertoire in Healthy Individuals is Highly Diverse, Study Reveals