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LexaGene Continues Vet Dx Market Push, Explores Sequencing Sample Prep for Microfluidic PCR Tech
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The firm aims to commercialize its platform for infectious disease testing in the US by mid to late 2019, and continues to explore additional financing options.

LexaGene, Texas A&M Veterinary Dx Lab Collaborate on Pathogen Detection Testing

As part of the collaboration, Texas A&M veterinarians will send canine urine samples to LexaGene for testing on its LX6 pathogen detection instrument.

DoD Awards $10M to Consortium to ID New TB Drug Targets

The consortium aims to identify tuberculosis protein targets and corresponding small molecule inhibitors that can be used to develop drugs to shorten therapy duration.

Big Cat Genomes Reveal Phylogenetic History

With new and available genome sequences, investigators delved into phylogenetic patterns and adaptations in lions, leopards, tigers, snow leopards, and jaguars.

Circulating Maternal MicroRNAs Distinguish Infants Affected by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Researchers in the US and Ukraine built a microRNA-based classifier to categorize infants as affected or unaffected.

Aug 10, 2016

Gliding Mammal Genome Reveals Primate Sister Group

Apr 22, 2016

Galapagos Finch Beak Size Locus Identified by Resequencing

Mar 8, 2016

Rapid, Inexpensive 'Lab-on-a-Drone' PCR Enabled With Convective Flow Thermal Cycling
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Feb 11, 2015

Finch Genomes Offer New Details on Adaptive Radiation Described by Darwin

Nov 11, 2014

Feline Genomes Offer Clues to Cat Traits, Domestication

Apr 24, 2014

Texas A&M, Baylor, University of Houston Land $4.4M for Environmental Science Center

Oct 30, 2013

Texas A&M Team Reaps $500K Grant for Cotton Genome Toolkit Project

Oct 15, 2013

Texas A&M to Provide $1.3M for Genomics, Bioinformatics Grants

Oct 2, 2013

Texas A&M Creates New Epigenetics Center to Research Phytochemicals

Aug 13, 2013

Texas A&M Plans Bioinformatics, Genomics Engineering Center

Jul 11, 2013

NIH Awards $2.3M in microRNA Research Grants in July
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Jun 27, 2013

Texas A&M Launches Initiative to Pull Together Resources in Genomics Research

Aug 2, 2012

Johns Hopkins-Led Team Shows Potential of Multiplex Allele-Specific PCR to Detect MDR-TB
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Dec 15, 2011

Lynntech Developing Inexpensive Sample Prep, Testing Platforms for Point-of-Care MDx
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Apr 19, 2011

USDA Awards Researchers $15M to Use Genotyping Arrays to Study Cattle
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Apr 18, 2011

USDA Awards $14M for Cattle Research Projects

Jun 4, 2010

Q&A: Texas A&M's Raffaele Montuoro on Parallelizing Illumina's Genome Analysis Pipeline
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Jan 4, 2010

USDA Gives Grant to Texas A&M for Corn Genetics

Nov 10, 2009

Biolog Nets $923K ARRA Grant to Upgrade Cell Array Platform
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Aug 11, 2009

Texas A&M Lands $3M EPA Toxicity Grant

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Suicidal Ideation-Linked Loci Identified Using Million Veteran Program Data

Researchers in PLOS Genetics identify risk variants within and across ancestry groups with a genome-wide association study involving veterans with or without a history of suicidal ideation.

Algorithm Teases Out Genetic Ancestry in Individuals at Biobank Scale

Researchers develop an algorithm known as Rye to tease apart ancestry fractions in admixed individuals at a biobank-scale, applying it to 488,221 UK Biobank participants in Nucleic Acids Research.

Multi-Ancestry Analysis Highlights Comparable Common Variants at Complex Trait-Linked Loci

Researchers in Nature Genetics examine common variants implicated in more than three dozen conditions, estimating genetic effect similarities across ancestry tracts in admixed individuals.

Sick Newborns Selected for WGS With Automated Pipeline

Researchers successfully prioritized infants with potential Mendelian conditions for whole-genome sequencing or rapid whole-genome sequencing, as they report in Genome Medicine.