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President Biden Proposes 10 Percent Boost in NIH Funding for Fiscal 2023

Though the National Institutes of Health overall would see a boost, the NCI and NHGRI would see funding cuts under the proposal.

Somalogic Using $1M in NSF Funding to Explore Quantum Biosensing Tech
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The approach could allow for more portable applications of its SomaScan technology while also improving the specificity of its proteomic measurements.

SomaLogic, Academic Collaborators Win $1M NSF Grant to Develop Proteomic Screening Assay

Other grant recipients include scientists from the University of Chicago, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Washington.

President Trump Signs Spending Package Boosting NIH Budget

The budget for fiscal year 2020 includes increases for each of the NIH's institutes and centers, as well as the FDA and the NSF.

Vanderbilt, Bruker Publish Data on Performance of timsTOF Flex MALDI Imaging System
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The researchers suggested that the system's combination of speed and high coverage could enable new applications within the imaging mass spec space.

Aug 22, 2019

University of Maine, Bigelow Lab to Lead $20M Aquatic Environmental DNA Research Initiative

Oct 15, 2018

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Indiana U Win $1.3M in NSF Funding for Genomics Program

Sep 25, 2018

Aperiomics Wins $229K NSF Award for Metagenomic Sequencing-Based Pathogen ID Tech

Aug 31, 2018

NSF Awards $10M in EDGE Program Grants

Feb 12, 2018

White House Proposes 27 Percent Cut in NIH Funding in FY 2019, Then Suggests $9.2B Infusion

Oct 27, 2017

NSF to Award $6M in EDGE Program Grants in 2018

Sep 22, 2017

Yale Awarded $1.8M NSF Grant to Establish Center for Genomically Encoded Materials

Jun 13, 2017

NSF Awards Grants Supporting Genomic Tool Development

May 8, 2017

Trump Signs Budget Into Law, NIH to Get $2B Increase

Mar 28, 2017

White House Proposes $1.2B Cut to NIH Budget in 2017

Jan 24, 2017

NSF, USDA Award Microbiome Research Grants

Jul 8, 2016

MBio Lands $218K NSF Grant for Water Toxin Testing

Mar 2, 2016

FASEB Calls for Increased FY2017 Funding for NIH, Other Science Agencies

Jan 14, 2016

Rebranding Reflects iPlant Platform's Growing Popularity in the Life Sciences, Other Domains
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Aug 11, 2015

NSF Awards $2.6M to Fund Research on Plant Long Non-Coding RNAs

Aug 4, 2015

NSF Awards KSU $1.6M for Wheat Genome Research

Jul 15, 2015

NSF Awards Researchers $1.4M to Develop High-Quality Map of Cotton Genome

Jun 9, 2015

Cornell Researchers Awarded $1.3M NSF Grant to Study Genetics of Rice Traits

May 6, 2015

NSF Grants Cornell $5.5M for Genome Editing in Rice

Mar 30, 2015

NSF Grants $671K for Genomic Biodiversity Research Led by UT Arlington

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Study Points to Tuberculosis Protection by Gaucher Disease Mutation

A mutation linked to Gaucher disease in the Ashkenazi Jewish population appears to boost Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance in a zebrafish model of the lysosomal storage condition, a new PNAS study finds.

SpliceVault Portal Provides Look at RNA Splicing Changes Linked to Genetic Variants

The portal, described in Nature Genetics, houses variant-related messenger RNA splicing insights drawn from RNA sequencing data in nearly 335,700 samples — a set known as the 300K-RNA resource.

Automated Sequencing Pipeline Appears to Allow Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Lineage Detection in Nevada Study

Researchers in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics describe and assess a Clear Labs Dx automated workflow, sequencing, and bioinformatic analysis method for quickly identifying SARS-CoV-2 lineages.

UK Team Presents Genetic, Epigenetic Sequencing Method

Using enzymatic DNA preparation steps, researchers in Nature Biotechnology develop a strategy for sequencing DNA, along with 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, on existing sequencers.