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BioFire Diagnostics, UMass Medical Coronavirus Tests Get FDA Emergency Use Authorization

BioFire's test is designed to detect and differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens, while UMass Medical's test is only for SARS-CoV-2.

GWAS Meta-Analysis of East Asian Individuals Link 60 New Loci to Diabetes Risk

The researchers said the findings underscore the need to study disease variants in a range of ancestral backgrounds.

Germline Genome Editing Experiment's Scientific Uncertainty Draws Ire of CRISPR Experts
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As they dig into the data on He Jiankui's genome editing experiment, CRISPR researchers say the work he did raises many scientific questions.

NSF Awards $10M in EDGE Program Grants

The program was established to support the development and dissemination of functional genomic tools and techniques for genome manipulation in model organisms.

Loss-of-Function KIF5A Mutations Linked to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Both a genome-wide association study and a rare variant burden analysis homed in on a role for KIF5A mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Oct 31, 2017

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

Aug 31, 2017

EBI Team Developing Genome Editing Resource for CRISPR Experimental Data
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Feb 3, 2017

NHGRI Commits $31.5M to Expand ENCODE Project

Oct 13, 2016

NIH Adds Four Medical Center Groups to Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program

Aug 9, 2016

Policy Changes Needed to Prevent Disparities in Genetically Based Medicine

Jul 25, 2016

Novel ALS Susceptibility Variants Uncovered in Pair of Studies

Mar 17, 2016

Team IDs Potential Gut Microbe Marker for Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Infants

Jan 11, 2016

PAG Presentation Describes Dog Model for OCD; Crowdsourcing Study of Dog Behavior Genetics

Oct 28, 2015

UMass Scientists Lead Effort to Excise Latent HIV With CRISPR/Cas9
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Sep 29, 2015

Court Rules Against University of Utah in RNAi IP Inventor Dispute

Mar 24, 2015

Scientists Track Chromosomes with Multicolor GFP-tagged CRISPR/Cas9
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Feb 4, 2015

UMass-led Team Exploring Dendritic Cells as Model for Gene Expression Research
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Jan 5, 2015

NHGRI Awards $28.3M to Uncover Secrets of Gene Regulation

Oct 1, 2014

Population Study Prompts New View of Monarch Butterfly Migratory History

Sep 26, 2014

NSF Awards $1.9M for Interdisciplinary Study of Bat Senses, Evolution

Sep 4, 2014

Court Dismisses Suit over Inventorship of Seminal RNAi Patents
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Aug 21, 2014

Genomics in the Journals Aug 21, 2014

Jan 6, 2014

Massachusetts Injects $8M into Joint UMass Boston, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

Sep 12, 2013

Benitec Poised to Move HCV Drug into Clinic as Ag-bio Firms Oppose European Patents
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Feb 8, 2013

Researchers Develop Method to Look for Locus-level Associations in GWAS Data

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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.