Sentences with phrase «genetic research projects»

We publish a quarterly newsletter and contribute to various animal related charities and genetic research projects.

With your help, we will have a DNA bank that all approved researchers will have access to when they need samples for genetic research projects.

The National Committee for Human Medical Research reviews and approves applications of all genetic research projects in Israel.

OptiGen is actively supporting a genetic research project aimed at identifying the other mutation (s) that cause PRA in the Miniature Schnauzer.

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The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

The firm's likely hoping to capitalize on a significant opportunity — the global direct - to - consumer genetic testing market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 20 %, from $ 117 million in 2017 $ 611 million by 2026, according to Credence Research.

Given Britain's involvement in an international research consortium formed to create the most detailed and medically useful picture of human genetic variation to date, tonight's other discussion points include the scientific value of the information and the regulatory implications of providing public access to personal genome data through academic research projects, as well as through commercial organisations.

Dr Frances Flinter (Chair), Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Guy's Hospital, London & Chair of the Human Genetics Commission working group to develop a common framework of principles for direct genetic tests; Dr Richard Durbin, Co-Chair of the 1000 Genomes Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton; Dr Barbara Prainsack, Senior Lecturer Medicine, Science & Society, Kings College, London; Prof. Martin Richards, Emeritus Professor of Family Research, University of Cambridge.

Whilst there I worked on a research project studying the genetics of inherited deafness and also performed routine genetic screening and prenatal diagnoses for diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.

David Kessler, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is calling for a big government - funded research project to help fill in the gaps in genetic pathways in people, which are turning out to be far more complex than expected for illnesses such as heart disease and which may be beyond the ability of private companies and smaller labs to figure out and pay for.

She did her master's degree research project at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), also in Warsaw, looking at the effect of genetic mutations on the function of an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of heme, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.

The interests of the CSFR and the NCLS aligned well on many SFRL projects, conferences, publications, and AAAS annual meeting symposia such as on the ethical and legal implications of genetic testing; use of animals in research and education; scientific misconduct and research integrity; use of scientific and technical information in the courts; ethical and legal aspects of computer network use and abuse; effects of national security controls on unclassified research, and the impact of neuroscience on the legal system.

Lindqvist's team is not the first to research «Yeti» DNA, but past projects ran simpler genetic analyses, which left important questions unresolved, she says.

Multiple research projects have shown that about half of the variation in people's body mass index can be attributed to genetic factors, while the rest is due to environmental factors, including diet and exercise.

One project that AquaGen started up in 2005 was a collaboration with the Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE), at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and the Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima) to make a precise map of the genetic markers that make certain salmon individuals resistant to the IPN (infectious pancreatic necrosis) virus.

The study is a part of the ongoing ATLAS project, which is a joint effort by Stockholm University and Uppsala University, supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences) and Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council), to investigate the genetic history of Scandinavia.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is hoping it can help scientists get much better at modifying the metabolic and genetic machinery of cells to produce useful products such as fuels.

The molecular mechanisms involved in the development of cancer have been uncovered by extensive research over the past 30 years, culminating in The Cancer Genome Atlas, a National Institutes of Health project that identified and characterized many genetic mutations that fuel cancer.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins delivered an upbeat assessment of what lies in store for the world's largest supporter of biomedical research, projecting advances in battling genetic disorders such as sickle cell disease and the development of an atlas of human cells to...

The research team, including members of Prof. Keinan's lab, Prof. Eitan Friedman of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine, and Prof. Gil Azmon and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Haifa, based their study on data from the Jewish HapMap project, an international effort led by Prof. Harry Ostrer of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to determine the genetic history of worldwide Jewish diasporas.

Based on these data, genetic testing to evaluate H pylori susceptibility outside of research projects would be premature.»

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

«Such evidence quantifying shared genetic risk factors among traditional psychiatric diagnoses will help us move toward classification that will be more faithful to nature,» said Bruce Cuthbert, Ph.D., director of the NIMH Division of Adult Translational Research and Treatment Development and coordinator of the Institute's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, which is developing a mental disorders classification system for research based more on underlyingResearch and Treatment Development and coordinator of the Institute's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, which is developing a mental disorders classification system for research based more on underlyingResearch Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, which is developing a mental disorders classification system for research based more on underlyingresearch based more on underlying causes.

A forward - looking initiative called the Research Domain Criteria project, financed by the National Institute of Mental Health, promotes clinical research to match biochemical and genetic indicators of mental illness with treResearch Domain Criteria project, financed by the National Institute of Mental Health, promotes clinical research to match biochemical and genetic indicators of mental illness with treresearch to match biochemical and genetic indicators of mental illness with treatments.

The 1000 Genomes Project, established in 2008, is an international research effort to establish the most detailed catalog of human genetic variation.

Projects focus on twins, mouse genetics, and proteomics European scientists are set to create the world's largest twin database as part of a nearly $ 40 million European Commission (EC) effort to stay at the forefront of genetic and genomic research.

The research is part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)-- a global project using the latest gene - sequencing technology to reveal the genetic changes driving the disease.

His team is now trying to get some idea by collecting information and different strains via existing global and European Union research projects that compile genetic sequences from pathogens.

Contemporary genetic SNP data were partly sourced from a research project supported by the Natural Environment Research Council's Sustainable Marine Bioresources Programme (gresearch project supported by the Natural Environment Research Council's Sustainable Marine Bioresources Programme (gResearch Council's Sustainable Marine Bioresources Programme (grant no.

Lin Li, Primary Investigator of this project at BGI, said, «This is a great progress for genetic research of esophageal squamous cell cancer.

After doing a genetic epidemiology research project at McGill, looking at whether family members of head and neck cancer patients had an increased risk of the disease (and finding the topic fascinating), she went to the University of Washington (U.W.) in Seattle to earn a master's degree in epidemiology.

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Other gene banks, such as Iceland's deCODE project, store human genetic material for medical research.

The collaborative research project will execute a multi-year program to develop genetic therapy for the disease.

«We're pleased to fund this project that will bring together well - established and highly regarded research groups throughout the world to enable an unprecedented sharing and analysis of Alzheimer genetic data,» said William Thies, Ph.D., Alzheimer's Association Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, and Philippe Lagayette, President of the Fondation Plan Alzheimer in France.

Mats Hansson is the director of the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at the University of Uppsala and has conducted extensive research in biomedical ethics as principal investigator in multi-disciplinary research projects dealing with issues ranging from ethical, social and legal aspects of the implementation of genetic diagnosis in clinical practice and the use of human tissue materials in research, to clinical and medicalResearch Ethics & Bioethics at the University of Uppsala and has conducted extensive research in biomedical ethics as principal investigator in multi-disciplinary research projects dealing with issues ranging from ethical, social and legal aspects of the implementation of genetic diagnosis in clinical practice and the use of human tissue materials in research, to clinical and medicalresearch in biomedical ethics as principal investigator in multi-disciplinary research projects dealing with issues ranging from ethical, social and legal aspects of the implementation of genetic diagnosis in clinical practice and the use of human tissue materials in research, to clinical and medicalresearch projects dealing with issues ranging from ethical, social and legal aspects of the implementation of genetic diagnosis in clinical practice and the use of human tissue materials in research, to clinical and medicalresearch, to clinical and medical ethics.

In addition to his other roles at the institute, he is director of the Clinical Molecular Genetics Training Program, an executive faculty member of the Joint National Institutes of Health - Johns Hopkins University Genetic Counseling Training Program, and the project officer for the Center for Inherited Disease Research in Baltimore, a research center that analyzes common disorders caused by the actions of multiple genes and interactions with the enviResearch in Baltimore, a research center that analyzes common disorders caused by the actions of multiple genes and interactions with the enviresearch center that analyzes common disorders caused by the actions of multiple genes and interactions with the environment.

She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study on the identification of molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta T cells as effector cells of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.

The Human Genome Project (HGP) catalyzed an explosion of genetic and biological research in both public and private sectors.

It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make - up of life on earth, and much more.

The Swedish Genomes Program: For research projects with the aim to understand genetic causes of human disease, and which have a translational value and demonstrate potential significance for improving future healthcare in Sweden.

Data from the 1000 genomes project (1KGP) and Complete Genomics (CG) have dramatically increased the numbers of known genetic variants and challenge several assumptions about the reference genome and its uses in both clinical and research settings.

Being backed by several large organizations, including NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, we are sure to see big changes coming our way as genetic sequencing moves towards being as easy to extract as someone's pulse.

The BioVacSafe project will draw on the latest life science research findings to profile how individuals respond to the different components of vaccines at the cellular, genetic and molecular level.

Research projects involving human subjects are required to «de-identify» samples, to insulate relevant health information (such as genetic data) from identifying information (patient names).

The MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health (CGGH) is supporting the development of the P. falciparum Community Project by providing expertise and resources for population genetic analysis, web application development and research capacity building.

When Vauterin joined the CGGH, he was new to malaria research but has since built a deep appreciation for the richness of this data — a perspective that's been helped by sharing office space with Dr Roberto Amato and Jacob Almagra - Garcia, who are both deeply involved with the population - level genetic analyses of the P. falciparum Community Project data.

A major health research project investigating environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors in the development of cancer and other serious diseases in British Columbia, Canada.

Several of our research projects are designed to advance understanding of the genetic mechanisms whereby specific cell types fulfill the unique functions of building our skeleton during embryonic and postnatal development and maintaining it through adulthood.

The Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) Center for Plant Biotechnology Research was established to support projects at BTI that utilize genetic engineering and plant cell culture.