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Gates Foundation Awards Multiple Omics, Dx Grants in April, May
Awardees include the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Detect-Ion, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Ambry Genetics, Pacific Biosciences to Sequence up to 7K Human Genomes for Rare Disease Study
The firms were selected by the University of California, Irvine and the GREGoR Consortium to support a program to understand the genetic causes of rare diseases.
Ancient Genome Sequence Provides Look at Ancestry for Individual Who Perished at Pompeii
With paleogenetics and archaeological data, investigators profiled individuals killed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption, generating a genome sequence for one of the ancient Pompeiians.
The University of Washington spinout, formerly called Split Biosciences, has received orders for its new whole-transcriptome kit from 50 early-access partners.
The firm is engaged in multiple clinical validation trials and aims to raise more than $100 million to launch its Helio Liver Test in the US early next year.