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Rockefeller Foundation Funds Global Pathogen Sequencing With $20M, Forms Collaborations
The funding and alliances mark the first step in the foundation's establishment of a pandemic prevention institute, which will collaborate with similar efforts elsewhere.
The talks focused on studies stemming from the Cancer Moonshot initiative's Human Tumor Atlas Network project, which is readying its first data release.
The method was applied to discover a druggable target and elucidate the mechanism of action for a small molecule inhibitor of that target in a disease model.
Dutch Seed Firm Bejo Takes License to Corteva Agriscience, Broad Institute CRISPR IP
Corteva and Broad have been nonexclusively licensing their respective CRISRP-Cas9 intellectual property for agricultural applications since 2017.
Tissue Atlases Provide Peek Into Single-Cell Level Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Infections
The atlases, built using tissue samples from people who died of severe COVID-19, pointed to cells and processes involved in the disease.