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Cold Spring Harbor Lab Develops iPhone App for Mobile Sequencing Analysis
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Some are comparing iGenomics, a former high school intern's creation, to the fictional "medical tricorder" of "Star Trek" fame. 

NYGC Initiative Receives up to $2.1M for Cancer Studies in Ethnic Minorities

The funding is being provided under the NYGC's Polyethnic-1000 initiative, which was launched in 2018 to study cancer care inequities in underserved populations.

Algorithm Points to Complex Hominin Mixing History

With a new analytical tool, researchers uncovered ancient archaic hominin sequences in the Denisovan genome, along with human introgression into Neanderthals up to 300,000 years ago.

Tomato Structural Variations Linked to Gene Expression, Traits

Researchers used long-read nanopore sequencing in 100 tomato varieties to uncover more than 230,000 structural variants in the tomato genome.

Envisagenics to Bring RNA Splicing Software Platform to J&J Lung Cancer Initiative

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory spinout will build predictive models for lung cancer progression and risk using its SpliceCore software platform.

Jul 3, 2019

UC Irvine-Led Team Wins $4M Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant for Breast Cell Atlas

Jan 16, 2019

Rapid Nanopore Sequencing of 100 Tomato Genomes Enables Structural Variant Analysis

Dec 18, 2018

Cancer Genetic Studies Explore Prognostic Value of Copy Number Alterations, Other Biomarkers
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Dec 5, 2018

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $52M in Grants for Neurodegenerative Disease Research

Jul 24, 2018

NY Genome Center Wins $1M Grant to Study Cancer Genetics Diversity

May 22, 2018

Envisagenics Wins $1.5M NIH Grant to Advance Alternative Splicing Analysis Tech

May 10, 2018

RNA, Chromatin Interaction Mapping Approach Presented at Biology of Genomes

Mar 28, 2018

Single-Cell Sequencing Strategies Trace Zebrafish Cell Lineages, Mouse Brain Connections

Feb 6, 2018

Autism Analysis Uncovers Ties Between Motor Skills, Damaging De Novo Mutations

Oct 24, 2017

NIH Announces BRAIN Initiative Grants for 2017

Sep 22, 2017

Cold Spring Harbor Team to Use $2.7M NIH Grant to Map Long Range Neural Projections
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Jul 20, 2017

Researchers Design, Construct Genome-Wide Sequence-Verified Arrayed CRISPR Library

May 11, 2017

Researchers Use New Approach to Uncover Variants Affecting Longevity in Humans

May 10, 2017

Genomic Autopsies Offer Diagnoses in Study of Perinatal Death Cases

Aug 22, 2016

CSHL Genome Engineering Meeting Shows Maturing CRISPR Technologies

Jun 24, 2016

RNA Sequencing Uncovers Complex Maize Transcriptome

May 16, 2016

WUSTL's Mardis Discusses Cancer Vaccine Work at Biology of Genomes Meeting

May 13, 2016

Parasites Influence Makeup of Human Gut Microbiome, BoG Speaker Reports

May 13, 2016

Lymphoma Mutations Modeled Through Genomic Analysis of Dog Breeds, BoG Speaker Reports

May 12, 2016

BoG Speaker Ties Loss-of-Function Variants in IFIH1 to Severe Pediatric Viral Respiratory Infections

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Another Resignation

According to the Wall Street Journal, a third advisory panel member has resigned following the US Food and Drug Administration's approval of an Alzheimer's disease drug.

Novavax Finds Its Vaccine Effective

Reuters reports Novavax's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19.

Can't Be Used

The US Food and Drug Administration says millions of vaccine doses made at an embattled manufacturing facility cannot be used, the New York Times reports.

PLOS Papers on Frozen Shoulder GWAS, Epstein-Barr Effects on Immune Cell Epigenetics, More

In PLOS this week: genome-wide association study of frozen shoulder, epigenetic patterns of Epstein-Barr-infected B lymphocyte cells, and more.