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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $14M in Grants for Cellular Analysis Tool Development
The funding will be provided to four groups that are developing new tools and technologies for analyzing cells and biomolecules.
The North Carolina State University team is working on scaling the technology further and may form a company to develop it commercially.
Bioinformatics Pipeline Annotates CRISPR Repeats, Cas Genes; Assembles Data in One Repository
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The researchers have made the pipeline, called CRISPRdisco, free for other scientists to use through Github, and are hoping the community will also help refine and update it.
UNC-Led Study Finds Proteins That Help Tardigrades Survive Drying Out
These tardigrade-specific proteins form a disordered, glass-like solid structure and could be used to help transport pharmaceuticals.
Arthropod Diversity in American Homes Documented in Sequencing Study
A citizen science-enabled project made it possible to document arthropod diversity from more than 700 homes across the continental US.