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Jun 19, 2018

This Week in PNAS: Jun 19, 2018

In PNAS this week: effects of gene deletions on bacterial metabolic networks, genetic responses to sea star wasting disease, and more.

Mar 21, 2018

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.

Feb 20, 2018

This Week in PNAS: Feb 20, 2018

In PNAS this week: mouse model of genetically induced emphysema, gene expression signatures of circulating melanoma cells, and more.

Oct 31, 2017

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.

Aug 31, 2017

EBI Team Developing Genome Editing Resource for CRISPR Experimental Data

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The team aims to release the new resource sometime next year, with the hope that it will become as widely used as other institute databases.

May 03, 2017

This Week in Cell: May 3, 2017

In Cell this week: host-microbe interactions and cancer drug response; links between transcription rate, mRNA translation, and methylation; and more.

Feb 03, 2017

NHGRI Commits $31.5M to Expand ENCODE Project

The funding will, in part, support efforts to expand the project's catalog of functional elements and understand their roles in different contexts.

Nov 04, 2016

The Better to Infect You With, My Dear

The Ebola virus may have mutated to better infect humans during the 2014 outbreak, the New York Times reports.

Oct 13, 2016

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

The healthcare provider organizations are tasked with managing patient enrollment in the Precision Medicine Initiative.

Aug 09, 2016

Policy Changes Needed to Prevent Disparities in Genetically Based Medicine

Tufts scientists and their colleagues called for steps to ensure that disadvantaged groups benefit from genetically based diagnoses and treatments.

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The Scan

To Explain What They Mean

The US National Institutes of Health's All of Us project awarded $4.6 million to the company Color to develop a genetic counseling resource for the program.

A Few Days

The Times of India reports on a pilot study that used genomic testing to determine whether patients had drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Slightly Larger Pool

New guidelines say that more women may benefit from genetic testing for hereditary breast or ovarian cancer, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Cell Studies Explore Microbiome Genes, Tumor Influence, More

In Cell this week: small proteins identified among human microbiome, role for tumor microbes in pancreatic cancer survival, and more.

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