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Acquisition Sees Agilent Gain Powerful NGS IP Portfolio
News Jul 26, 2017Agilent Technologies announces its acquisition of the molecular and sample barcoding portfolios of Population Genetics Technologies.
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DARPA Pours $65 Million Into Making CRISPR Safer
News Jul 20, 2017With one eye on potential bioterrorism threats, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced $65 million in funding to seven projects around the USA.
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CRISPR Reveals New Targets for Promising Cancer Drugs
News Jul 20, 2017Novel screening method identifies new drug targets that could potentially enhance the effectiveness of PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, a promising new class of cancer immunotherapy.
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Potential Barcode Identified for a Form of Alcoholic Liver Disease
News Jul 19, 2017NIAAA-supported researchers have discovered that extracellular vesicles released by liver cells in a mouse model of alcoholic steatohepatitis contain a miRNA signature detectable in the blood.
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Synchrotron Light Shows Human Domestication of Seeds From 2000BC
News Jul 17, 2017For the first time, scientists from University College London have used the UK's synchrotron facility to document the evolution of seed coat thinning from archaeological remains.
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Study Indicates 75% of Human Genome is Non-functional
News Jul 16, 2017An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more than 25 percent of the human genome is functional.
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Changing microRNA's Presence in Glioblastoma Cells Could Change the Tumor's Subtype
News Jul 16, 2017BWH researchers examined a specific microRNA, miR-128, to help identify glioblastoma subtypes and to determine if altering the microRNA's presence in glioblastoma cells could change the tumor's subtype.
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RNA Molecules Lives Are 10 Times Shorter Than Previously Thought
News Jul 16, 2017A research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has developed a new method to measure the half-life of RNA molecules.
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Big-Data Analysis Points Toward New Drug Discovery Method
News Jul 16, 2017A research team has developed a computational method to systematically probe massive amounts of open-access data to discover new ways to use drugs, including some that have already been approved for other uses.
CRISPR Transforms Living Cells Into Data Storage Devices
News Jul 13, 2017Genome engineering technology transforms living cells into archival data storage devices that capture, store, and propagate information over time.
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International Conference on Genomics and Pharmacogenomics
Jul 18 - Jul 19, 2018
