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Using engineered protective nanoparticles inspired by viruses, the system promises to export cargo RNA from live cells with high specificity.
Bipolar Disorder Research Initiative Awards $15M for Brain Genetics, Omics Platforms
BD2, a collaboration between three family philanthropies and the Milken Institute, made the awards to two teams for large-scale sequencing and a brain atlas.
ENCODE Phase Three Offers New Insights Into Genomic Regulatory Regions, Organization
In more than a dozen new papers, ENCODE researchers reported on analyses of the human and mouse genomes, using new data types and additional tissues.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $3.8M in Grants for Open-Source Biomedical Software Projects
The funding marks the second cycle of CZI's Essential Open Source Software program, which awards between $50,000 and $250,000 in total costs per project.
Unlike the Hi-C chromosome conformation assay, the Pore-C technique reveals information that's lost with short-read sequencing.