Genome Research

Managing incidental findings in human subjects research

harminka — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:52:56 -0500

Susan Wolf, J.D., professor and chair of the University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences, led a multidisciplinary team of national experts to develop the first major guidelines on managing incidental findings (IF) in human subjects research which have just been published.

EuroDYNA leaves healthy genomic research ecosystem as legacy

harminka — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:58:28 -0500

Europe's position as a major player in genome research has been boosted by the European Science Foundation's three-year EUROCORES programme EuroDYNA.

£1 million for genome research into extreme obesity

seher — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:40:41 -0500

A Bristol University genome-wide association study of extreme obesity in young adults has been awarded more than £1 million by the Wellcome Trust.

Ethical treatment of whole genome research participants

harminka — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:46:55 -0500

Recent technological developments have made it possible for scientists to sequence an entire human genome, but these advances may be a mixed blessing. While much has been made of the benefits of whole-genome sequencing, from improved disease diagnosis to rational drug design, the impacts on the privacy and autonomy of individual participants has received much less scrutiny.

BGSU undergraduates to pilot groundbreaking genome project

harminka — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:46:37 -0600

Bowling Green State University biology undergraduates will soon be contributing to the body of knowledge in genomics while they learn. The University has been selected as one of 12 institutions nationwide to pilot the new Microbial Genome Annotation research program through the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI).

Duke scientists map imprinted genes in human genome

harminka — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:07:48 -0600

Scientists at Duke University have created the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome, and they say a modern-day Rosetta stone – a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning – was the key to their success.

UW researchers play major role in next phase of Human Genome Project

harminka — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:16:09 -0500

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded University of Washington researchers $10.8 million as part of a national effort to expand the ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project.

Iowa State professor's genome research published in latest issue of Science

harminka — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:04:24 -0500

Martin H. Spalding, professor and chair of the department of genetics, development and cell biology at Iowa State, is part of an international research team whose work will be published in the Oct. 12 issue of the journal Science.

Census of protein architectures offers new view of history of life

harminka — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:10:39 -0500

The present can tell you a lot about the past, but you need to know where to look. A new study appearing this month in Genome Research reveals that protein architectures – the three-dimensional structures of specific regions within proteins – provide an extraordinary window on the history of life.