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MemVerge Hopes 'Big Memory Computing' Will Accelerate Bioinformatics Data Processing
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The Silicon Valley startup recently announced deals with Penn State, TGen, and Analytical Biosciences to cut computational time and improve data recovery.

Hundreds of Genetic Loci Influence Shape of the Human Face

The study, which focused on Europeans, also highlighted a role for enhancers during embryonic development in determining facial features.

Quadrant Biosciences Wins $2.3M NIH Grant to Develop Saliva Test for Concussion

The company and its collaborators previously published a study linking saliva concentrations of multiple microRNAs with concussion duration and symptoms in children.

SARS-CoV-2 Lineage May Go Back 'Decades' in Bats, Phylogenetic Analysis Suggests

With genome sequence alignments and phylogenetic analyses focused on non-recombining regions, researchers traced the SARS-CoV-2 lineage in bats back at least 40 years.

SeqOne Looks to Support NGS-Based COVID-19 Testing to Accelerate Pandemic Screening, Tracing
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French startup SeqOne has adapted its sequencing data-analysis platform to support a new method for high-throughput processing of coronavirus tests in its home country.

May 12, 2020

High-Throughput Diagnostic COVID-19 Sequencing Assays May Enable Large-Scale Testing
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Mar 11, 2020

In Survey, Half Say They Want to be Paid for Providing Their Own Genomic Data

Feb 15, 2019

Obesity-Related Gene Methylation Changes Connected to BMI in Healthy Adolescents

Sep 10, 2018

Noncoding Structural Variants Highlighted in Integrated Cancer Genome Analysis

Apr 10, 2018

Quadrant Biosciences Licenses SUNY, Penn State Epigenetic Biomarkers for Neuro Diseases

Jun 13, 2017

NSF Awards Grants Supporting Genomic Tool Development

Jun 1, 2017

Penn State Researchers Offering License-Free DNA Ladders for Electrophoresis Studies
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Apr 28, 2017

Penn State, Geisinger Team on New Biomedical Big Data Program

Mar 1, 2017

VISION To Use $6.1M Grant to Integrate Epigenomic Data for Blood-Based Diseases, Other Applications
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Nov 15, 2016

Ancient Indigenous Exomes Reveal History, Post-Colonization Immune Selection Shift

May 17, 2016

Giraffe, Okapi Genomes Reveal Clues to Height, Other Differences

Mar 31, 2016

NIH Funds Research to Sequence Malaria Parasite Transcriptome, Proteome

Aug 21, 2015

Former Secretary of State Advisor Speaks Out on GM Crop Safety, Necessity

Jul 2, 2015

Comparative Genomics Offers Hints to Molecular Adaptations in Woolly Mammoth Genomes

Feb 12, 2015

Penn State University Gets $209K NSF Grant to Develop Novel De Novo Assembly Software
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Jan 29, 2015

Enhanced GWAS Method IDs New Loci Associated With Response to Asthma Drugs
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Jan 15, 2015

Q&A: Marylyn Ritchie on Geisinger's New Biomedical and Translational Informatics Program
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Jan 8, 2015

NIJ Awards $800K Grant to Assess NGS Technology for Forensics

Dec 4, 2014

Study Suggests African Khoisan Hunter-Gatherers Remained Isolated, Represented Largest Population
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May 20, 2014

Thermo Fisher Inks E. Coli Test Development Deal with USDA

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Polarized Science Confidence

A new survey finds that confidence in science among US adults is increasingly polarized, the Associated Press says.

Time to Sit Back and Relax

NPR reports that the US National Institutes of Health has transferred the last of its eligible former research chimpanzees to a sanctuary.

Omicron-Focused Vaccines

The New York Times reports both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna have launched trials of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines targeting the Omicron variant.

Nature Papers Present Cloud-Computing Analysis Approach, Transcription Factor With Role in Bacterial Genome Organization

In Nature this week: researchers describe the free, open-source cloud-computing infrastructure Serratus and more.