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News items for the week of June 20, 2022.
Variant Identified in Amish Population Appears to Protect From Cardiovascular Disease
A rare missense variant in the enzyme-coding gene B4GALT1 is linked to lower coronary artery disease risk and reduced blood LDL cholesterol levels.
RNA Disease Diagnostics Licenses RNA Lateral Flow Tech for At-Home SARS-CoV-2 Test
The company said the technology does not require nucleic acid amplification or isolation and can detect SARS-CoV-2 as effectively as PCR-based methods.
National Disease Research Interchange, Collaborators Win $12.5M NIH Grant for Biospecimen Effort
The partners will use the funds to secure pediatric biospecimens for the developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression project.
Researchers screened nine orthologs that had not been tried in plants before and identified six that possessed high editing activity in rice.
Aug 27, 2019
NHGRI Awards $3M Under Genomic Innovator Program
Nov 8, 2018
Aug 31, 2018
NSF Awards $10M in EDGE Program Grants
Oct 24, 2017