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NIH Earmarks $170M for All of Us Program's Personalized Nutrition Study

The project will use genomic and other health data from All of Us Research Program participants to study factors that can inform personalized nutrition recommendations.

Florida Atlantic University Wins $1.3M NIH Grant to Develop Sample-to-Answer HIV Self-Test

The assay will be designed for self-testing and is expected to be sensitive enough to detect HIV during acute infection, treatment, and viral rebound.

People in the News: New Appointments at NIH, Predicine, Mainz Biomed, Bio-Techne, More

People in the News: New Appointments at NIH, Abbott, Talis Biomedical, More

Anavasi Diagnostics Awarded $14.9M NIH Grant for Rapid Molecular SARS-CoV-2 Test

The AscencioDx test uses loop-mediated isothermal amplification to return results in approximately 30 minutes.

Nov 5, 2021

People in the News: New Appointments at Resolve Biosciences, Epic Sciences, NIH, More

Oct 20, 2021

NIH SenNet Program to Map Rare Senescent Cells Implicated in Human Health

Oct 14, 2021

RADx Issues $77.7M in New Contracts for SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Diagnostic Tests

Oct 8, 2021

People in the News: Collins to Depart NIH; Appointments at Oncocyte, Roswell Biotech; and More

Sep 30, 2021

RNA-Guided Systems May Be Present in Eukaryotes, Hold Promise as Biotech Tools
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Sep 30, 2021

National Disease Research Interchange, Collaborators Win $12.5M NIH Grant for Biospecimen Effort

Sep 28, 2021

Public-Private Data Science Collaboration to ID Alzheimer's, Other Neurodegenerative Risk Factors

Sep 23, 2021

NIH Awards $73M to Continue Buildout of ClinGen

Sep 15, 2021

New Chelex-Based Protocol Shows Potential to Reduce Cost, Time of COVID-19 Testing
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Sep 10, 2021

NIH Awards $185M to 25 Teams Studying Genomic Variation, Function

Aug 2, 2021

Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research Wins $2.9M NIH Grant to Study Polygenic Embryo Screening

Jul 29, 2021

Secondary Genetic Findings Often Requested if Given Second Chance, Study Finds

Jul 20, 2021

Microsoft Azure Joins NIH STRIDES Cloud Computing Program

Jul 16, 2021

US House Appropriations Committee Seeks 15 Percent NIH Funding Increase for Fiscal 2022

Jun 22, 2021

Lander, Collins Offer Vision for Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

Jun 15, 2021

LSU Health Sciences Center Wins $2.4M to Lead SARS-CoV-2 Variant Sequencing Program

Jun 8, 2021

NIH Earmarks $38M for Consortium Studying Polygenic Risk Scores in Diverse Populations

Apr 6, 2021

NIH RADx Program Awards $29.3M to Increase SARS-CoV-2 Testing Capacity

Mar 29, 2021

Armonica Technologies Wins $349K SBIR Grant From NHGRI

Mar 25, 2021

SARS-CoV-2 Study Implicates Saliva in Viral Transmission

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Time to Act

A new report urges the UK to consider regulations to protect against the misuse of genomic technologies, according to the Guardian.

Fulgent Seeking Defamation Suit

Fulgent Genetics says it plans to sue Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva for defamation, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Speeding Gene-Edited Crops

Reuters reports that China's new trial rules will make it easier to grow gene-edited crops there.

Nucleic Acids Research Papers on Viral Recombination, Pan-Cancer Mutations, SARS-CoV-2 Variability

In Nucleic Acids Research this week: updated pipeline to detect viral recombination, mutational patterns in tumor samples, and more.