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Jan 11, 2016

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

Following from genetic studies of compulsive behavior in dogs, researchers have starting collecting behavioral information for dogs in the Darwin's Dogs project.

Oct 28, 2015

UMass Scientists Lead Effort to Excise Latent HIV With CRISPR/Cas9

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The scientists fused Cas9 to zinc finger proteins to reduce off-target activity, essentially replacing the other nucleases that had been used with zinc fingers.

Sep 29, 2015

Court Rules Against University of Utah in RNAi IP Inventor Dispute

The court found that the university had failed to demonstrate that one of its researchers had collaborated with the IP's inventors and therefore is not entitled to co-inventorship.

Mar 24, 2015

Scientists Track Chromosomes with Multicolor GFP-tagged CRISPR/Cas9

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The method improves a research tool that can view chromosome movement throughout the living cell nucleus in space and time, and has both research and clinical uses.

Feb 04, 2015

UMass-led Team Exploring Dendritic Cells as Model for Gene Expression Research

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Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School will use a three-year, $6.1 million NIH grant to build predictive models of gene expression.

Jan 05, 2015

NHGRI Awards $28.3M to Uncover Secrets of Gene Regulation

The five new grants, part of the Genomics of Gene Regulation program, will fund research into the mechanisms controlling gene expression.

Oct 01, 2014

Population Study Prompts New View of Monarch Butterfly Migratory History

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – An international team led by investigators in the US and China has published a population genomics study that provides new clues about the evolution, behavior, and physical traits that characterize the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.

Sep 26, 2014

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

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A research team spread across four universities has netted a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study bats to uncover the genetic, developmental, and anatomical basis of natural selection for their unique sensory structures.

Sep 04, 2014

Court Dismisses Suit over Inventorship of Seminal RNAi Patents

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A US District Court late last month threw out a lawsuit filed by a former University of Massachusetts researcher against the Carnegie Institution of Washington over inventorship of seminal intellectual property related to the discovery of RNA interference.

Aug 21, 2014

Genomics in the Journals Aug 21, 2014

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – In Nature Genetics, an American- and Finnish-led team described the apparent effects of an EGLN1 mutation that's been linked to high-altitude adaptations in the absence o

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The Scan

Maybe Not to Eat…

Mainichi reports that 43 percent of Japanese individuals said they did not want to eat agricultural products that had been modified using gene-editing tools.

Moving From DC to KC

Two US Department of Agriculture research departments are moving to the Kansas City area, according to the Washington Post.

Just for Fun?

Slate's Jane Hu compares some at-home genetic tests to astrology.

PLOS Has Skin Cancer Risk Scores and More This Week

In PLOS this week: analysis of polygenic risk scores for skin cancer, chronic pain GWAS, and more.

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