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Proteomics Researchers Launch Initiative to Drive Investigation of Understudied Proteins
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Supported by the Wellcome Trust, the effort is rooted in the idea that many proteins go unstudied due to a lack of basic functional information about them.

$60M Wellcome Leap R3 Program to Support Network of RNA-Based Biofoundries
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The program is expected to aid increased investments in RNA-based products, which the organizers maintain are currently limited by manufacturing constraints.

Rockefeller Foundation Funds Global Pathogen Sequencing With $20M, Forms Collaborations

The funding and alliances mark the first step in the foundation's establishment of a pandemic prevention institute, which will collaborate with similar efforts elsewhere.

Wellcome Leap Launches $55M Program to Develop Disease-Specific Tissue Profiling Platforms

The US nonprofit founded by the UK's Wellcome Trust will fund collaborative research projects to build multiscale and multimodal "tissue time machines."

UK Biobank Launches COVID-19 Immunity Study

The study aims to enroll 20,000 existing Biobank participants, as well as their adult children and grandchildren, from England, Scotland, and Wales.

Mar 25, 2020

UK COVID-19 Sequencing Consortium to Reveal Viral Spread, Evolution

Mar 23, 2020

UK COVID-19 Sequencing Consortium Launches With £20M in Government, Wellcome Trust Funding

Sep 27, 2019

Study Investigates Trust in Genomic Data Sharing Initiatives to Inform Future Efforts
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Sep 11, 2019

UK Biobank Whole-Genome Sequencing Project Obtains £200M from Pharma, Government, Philanthropy

Aug 15, 2019

Jalview Sequence Alignment, Visualization Software Gets New Funding
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Apr 10, 2019

Genome-Scale CRISPR Screening Helps Identify New Cancer Drug Targets

Nov 27, 2018

Systematic CRISPR-Cas9 Analysis Leads to Development of Gene Editing Prediction Tool

Nov 8, 2018

Some Developmental Disorders Caused by Recessive Coding Variants

Nov 5, 2018

Parasitic Worm Adaptations, Gene Targets Uncovered by Comparative Genomics

Nov 1, 2018

Wellcome Sanger Institute, Collaborators Launch Project to Sequence 66K Species

Jul 16, 2018

CRISPR Genome Editing May Cause More Complex Rearrangements, Deletions Than Previously Thought

May 14, 2018

Genetic Variants Can Highlight Possible Drugs for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Apr 30, 2018

PredictImmune Receives £4.3M From Wellcome Trust for Crohn's Biomarker Study

Apr 23, 2018

UK Effort to Sequence 3K Bacterial Genomes Nears Goal

Nov 29, 2017

Mosquito Genomes Reveal High Diversity, Movement of Insecticide Resistance Genes

Oct 19, 2017

Evolutionary Analysis Reveals Number, Nature of Mutations Under Positive Selection in Cancer

Sep 13, 2017

Breast Cancer Mutation Signatures Suggest Mismatch Repair Subset

Aug 17, 2017

As Brexit Negotiations Unfold, UK Researchers and Institutions Remain Worried About Coming Changes
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Jul 21, 2017

Researchers Find MRSA Genesis Occurred Years Before Clinical Introduction of Methicillin

Jul 21, 2017

Sanger Institute Wins Grant for Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance

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Sick Newborns Selected for WGS With Automated Pipeline

Researchers successfully prioritized infants with potential Mendelian conditions for whole-genome sequencing or rapid whole-genome sequencing, as they report in Genome Medicine.

Acne-Linked Loci Found Through GWAS Meta-Analysis

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics find new and known acne vulgaris risk loci with a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis, highlighting hair follicle- and metabolic disease-related genes.

Retina Cell Loss Reversed by Prime Editing in Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa

A team from China turns to prime editing to correct a retinitis pigmentosa-causing mutation in the PDE6b gene in a mouse model of the progressive photoreceptor loss condition in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

CRISPR Screens Reveal Heart Attack-Linked Gene

Researchers in PLOS Genetics have used CRISPR screens to home in on variants associated with coronary artery disease that affect vascular endothelial function.