University of Nottingham

Feb 12, 2018

Mishandling Them

The Guardian reports that labs in the UK have had safety incidents involving pathogens.

Jun 19, 2017

Fetal Variants Influence Maternal Preeclampsia Risk, New Study Finds

A genome-wide association study of children whose mothers had preeclampsia, conducted as part of the InterPregGen study, implicates variants near the FLT1 gene in the condition.

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.

Sep 28, 2015

GWAS Yields New Loci Linked to Lung Function, Smoking Behavior

Data for tens of thousands of UK Biobank participants revealed an overlapping set of variants involved in airflow obstruction in heavy and never smokers.

Jun 20, 2013

Snail Genetic Study Hints at Ancient Human Migration Event

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Genetic patterns in snail populations across Western Europe and the UK — described in a new PLOS ONE study — point to a possible human migration from the Eastern Pyrenees

Mar 14, 2012

UK Research Team Explores Exome Sequencing for Muscular Dystrophy Diagnosis

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By Julia Karow

Aug 09, 2011

University of Nottingham Gets Funding to Develop Alzheimer's Dx

By a GenomeWeb staff reporter

Feb 22, 2011

BBSRC Funds $11.3M Wheat Development Group

A UK consortium will use the funds to study wheat variations that could be used to develop more sustainable, higher-yielding crops.

Nov 03, 2009

UK, Germany, Netherlands Give $2.5M for Plant Systems Biology Effort

The funding from the three countries will use informatics to study systems involved in seed germination.

Feb 02, 2009

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Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced

This year's Breakthrough Prize winners include a pair that developed a therapy for spinal muscular atrophy.

Misuse of Genetic Research

The New York Times reports on how white supremacists misconstrue genetic research, concerning many geneticists.

Not Quite the Ivy League Gene

Researchers find that people's genetics influence their success at university, but that it is not the only factor.

This Week in Nature

In Nature this week: approach to identify genetic variants that affect trait variability, application of read clouds to microbiome samples, and more.

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