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Dr. William M. Gelbart, NHGRI Advisor and Grantee, Receives Distinguished...
National Human Genome Research Institute advisor and grantee, William M. Gelbart, Ph.D., Harvard University professor of molecular and cell biology, is the recipient of the 2010 Genetic Society of...
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Answers to Genome Analysis May Be in the Clouds
With NexGen sequencing machines generating cheap DNA data in record amounts, genomics researchers have been on "cloud nine". Except for one thing: the data pouring out of the gene machines are swamping...
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NHGRI Provides Sneak Peek into Future of Genome Sequencing Program
The NHGRI Large-Scale Sequencing Program comes up for renewal in fiscal year 2011 and the institute's program managers recently recommended to the National Advisory Council of Human Genome Research...
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NIH Receives Donation of Knockout Mice Collection Used To Study Secreted and...
A full 472 knockout mouse lines — all extensively characterized (phenotyped) — are now publicly available from the National Institutes of Health's Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Center (MMRRC) at the...
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The Road to the $1000 Genome — A Roundup of Sequencing Technology...
Recent news articles marking the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the first draft sequence of the human genome also predicted the rise of DNA sequencing technologies that sequence a human...
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Applicants Wanted: Funding Now Available for New Phase of NHGRI Large-Scale...
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has started the new year with a bang, offering about $90 million in new funding opportunities to continue its support of large genome sequencing and...
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The Road to the $1000 Genome Via Nanopores - A Roundup of Sequencing...
We are nearing the day when a small blood sample can be rapidly sequenced on a handheld device in your doctor's office. By analyzing your DNA, your doctor will have critical information on your current...
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NHGRI Funds Now Available to Include Standard Measures in Genomic Studies
NHGRI is pleased to announce supplemental funding to researchers who incorporate standardized measures available from the Consensus Measures for Phenotype and eXposures (PhenX) Toolkit. Such measures...
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New User's Guide and Tutorial Helps Disease Researchers Interpret Human Genome
The ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium published a user's guide and tutorial in the April 2011 issue of PLoS Biology. The tutorials are expected to help researchers use the insights into...
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Ethical, legal and social issues of genomic research spotlighted at ELSI...
Researchers confronted a plethora of plenaries, sessions, workshops and posters on the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genomic research at Exploring the ELSI Universe, the 2011 ELSI...
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DNA Sequences: Assembly Required
Leaders of the Genome 10K project, an effort to collect and sequence the DNA of 10,000 vertebrate species have tapped into "crowdsourcing" to improve how all those eventual sequenced genomes are...
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Funding Now Available for Technology Development to Catalog and Analyze...
The National Human Genome Research Institute is offering up to $5.75 million in new funding opportunities to support the development and use of novel analytical methods and efficient high-throughput...
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NHGRI's Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program Updates...
NHGRI's Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) research program has re-focused its research to stay in step with genomic advances. The program is now aligned with NHGRI's new strategic plan for...
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eMERGE network funding expands, adds pediatric studies
By linking data about patients' genes with descriptions of their diseases via Electronic Medical Records (EMR), doctors may someday be able to customize patients' treatments and outcomes. This is the...
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Applicants Wanted: Funding Now Available for H3Africa
African researchers may now apply for funding to build genomic research facilities and expertise and to conduct genomic studies in Africa. The grants are part of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa...
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Grant Writing: Advice from an NHGRI Pro
The most successful scientific researchers hone their grant writing skills in order to compete for increasingly scarce funding. The National Human Genome Research Institute wants to help you write...
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Leaping Lizards! Researchers sequence first lizard genome
If Little Orphan Annie had a DNA sequencing machine at Daddy Warbucks' mansion, she would probably start by sequencing the genome of a lizard to see why it leaped. And, she might be interested to...
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NHGRI funds return of results studies, forms expert consortium
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today awarded seven grants, totaling $5.7 million, aimed at untangling one of the knottiest ethical issues facing genomic researchers. Under the...
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Submit your bold ideas now for transformative research awards
Researchers with bold, paradigm-shifting ideas that will accelerate the translation of research into improved health outcomes can now apply for up to $25 million from the NIH Director's Transformative...
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February 24, 2012: NIDA and NHGRI announce new PhenX measures for substance...
New standardized substance abuse and addiction measures, published February 24 on the PhenX Toolkit, will make it easier for researchers to combine studies and gain the much-needed statistical power to...
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