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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.

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

The five-year project aims to analyze environmental DNA in three Maine watersheds to improve the management of the state's coastal ecosystems.

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

Feb 2, 2015

President Obama Calls for $1B Increase in NIH Funding in 2016 Budget

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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.