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For All the Blue Crabs in Maryland

The Baltimore Sun reports that researchers have sequenced the blue crab genome.

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.

Science Papers Examine State of Human Genomic Research, Single-Cell Protein Quantification

In Science this week: a number of editorials and policy reports discuss advances in human genomic research, and more.

Number of False Positives

The Washington Post looks into a series of false positive test results for SARS-CoV-2 in Maryland.

Novel CRISPR-Cas12a Orthologs Expand Gene Editing Toolkit for Plants
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Researchers screened nine orthologs that had not been tried in plants before and identified six that possessed high editing activity in rice.

Jul 23, 2019

Cancer Survival, Drug Response Influenced by Coexpression of Gene Pairs

Apr 5, 2019

U of Maryland Institute for Genome Sciences Wins $17.5M NIH Grant

Mar 22, 2019

Spontaneous Preterm Birth Clues Identified in Cervicovaginal Microbiome

Nov 8, 2018

Bacterial Classification Could Be Compromised as RefSeq Database Grows
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Oct 26, 2018

New Zika Genomes From African, Asian Lineages Document Virus' Population Diversity

Aug 31, 2018

NSF Awards $10M in EDGE Program Grants

Jun 27, 2018

Peruvian Genome Project Sheds Light on Native American Population History

Nov 6, 2017

NIH Awards $9M in Funding to Support Data Commons Pilot Phase

Oct 24, 2017

NIH Announces BRAIN Initiative Grants for 2017

Jun 13, 2017

Cellth Systems Licenses CTC Technology From University of Maryland

Apr 20, 2017

Rare Variants Linked to Cancer Using New Statistical Approach

Oct 12, 2016

African-Ancestry Populations Harbor Genetic Variation, Differences Not Seen in Genomic Databases

Oct 5, 2016

Quantitative PCR Gives New Insights on Large Study of Childhood Diarrhea in Africa, Asia
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Apr 26, 2016

Fecal Transplant Stool Banks Face Potential Regulatory Changes; May Affect Physicians, Patients
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Apr 6, 2016

UMD School of Public Health to Use CosmosID Tech in Food Crop Irrigation Project

Sep 10, 2015

NIH Awards $1.8M Grant to Develop Genomic Data Visualization Tools

May 6, 2015

Biomecite Diagnostics Options Molecular IBD Test Tech from UM Baltimore

Jan 26, 2015

U of Maryland-led Statistical Study Points to Co-evolution of Plasmodium Parasite, Mammalian Hosts
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Dec 19, 2014

U of Maryland Scientist Wins NIH Grant to Detect HIV Using RT-binding Aptamers
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Sep 4, 2014

Genomics in the Journals Sep 4, 2014

Breaking News
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Support for Moderna Booster

An FDA advisory committee supports authorizing a booster for Moderna's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, CNN reports.

Testing at UK Lab Suspended

SARS-CoV-2 testing at a UK lab has been suspended following a number of false negative results.

J&J CSO to Step Down

The Wall Street Journal reports that Paul Stoffels will be stepping down as chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson by the end of the year.

Science Papers Present Proteo-Genomic Map of Human Health, Brain Tumor Target, Tool to Infer CNVs

In Science this week: gene-protein-disease map, epigenomic and transcriptomic approach highlights potential therapeutic target for gliomas, and more