Sentences with phrase «in human genome research»

Joining him as co-chairs will be Nobel Prize - winning scientist Harold Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Eric Lander, a specialist in human genome research.

You doubt something like carbon dating, without realizing how old isotope knowledge is, nor do you understand how far beyond we are in human genome research.

Not exact matches

Research comparing human and chimpanzee genomes, published in Nature, found that there are more than 40 million differences between the two species» base pairs, which are the DNA building blocks.

With the advances in knowledge that are almost certain to be gained from the Human Genome Initiative — or, if its critics should win the day and it lose support, from more piecemeal genetic - research — we will know more and - more about genetic factors causally related to health and disease and to other important aspects of life, such as intelligence and emotional states.

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.

In a research paper published in April last year, Chinese scientists described how they were able to manipulate the genomes of human embryos for the first time, which raised ethical concerns about the new frontier in sciencIn a research paper published in April last year, Chinese scientists described how they were able to manipulate the genomes of human embryos for the first time, which raised ethical concerns about the new frontier in sciencin April last year, Chinese scientists described how they were able to manipulate the genomes of human embryos for the first time, which raised ethical concerns about the new frontier in sciencin science.

When her appointment came to a close, a colleague rolled his chair over to her one day and suggested her for a data scientist job with the Stanford - based Data Coordination Center of the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) Consortium, an international collaboration of research groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Mresearch groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MResearch Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

As Finley Austin, Ph.D. in Human Genetics and now administrative director for the Merck Genome Research Institute, admits: «I find it a bit difficult as to how to advise someone to follow my path, since it was not what I originally set out to do.»

«Our study shows that epigenetic drift, which is characterized by gains and losses in DNA methylation in the genome over time, occurs more rapidly in mice than in monkeys and more rapidly in monkeys than in humans,» explains Jean - Pierre Issa, MD, Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at LKSOM, and senior investigator on the new study.

In the last eight years, the field of ancient DNA research has expanded from just one ancient human genome to more than 1,300.

The ability of SIF - seq to use reporter assays in mouse embryonic stem cells to identify human embryonic stem cell enhancers that are not present in the mouse genome opens the door to intriguing research possibilities as Dickel explains.

The National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy held a conference in 2001 to celebrate 10 years of conducting research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project, as we reported in our story «A Decade of ELSI Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into theresearch on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project, as we reported in our story «A Decade of ELSI Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into theResearch»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into the Future.

Real research scripts about editing the human genome are now appearing in scientific and medical journals.

The work, funded by the US National Human Genome Research Institute, aims to create human cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease andHuman Genome Research Institute, aims to create human cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease andhuman cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease and how.

And in the United States, the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, recently funded three Mendelian Disorders Sequencing Centers that will apply genome sequencing to diagnosing thousands of patients with a wider range of rare diseases, including intellectual disability and developmental Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, recently funded three Mendelian Disorders Sequencing Centers that will apply genome sequencing to diagnosing thousands of patients with a wider range of rare diseases, including intellectual disability and developmental genome sequencing to diagnosing thousands of patients with a wider range of rare diseases, including intellectual disability and developmental delay.

Equally detailed maps have been produced for a few of the human genome's 23 chromosomes, but this map provides «placement of landmarks all across the genome,» says Eric Green, a molecular biologist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryhuman genome's 23 chromosomes, but this map provides «placement of landmarks all across the genome,» says Eric Green, a molecular biologist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Margenome's 23 chromosomes, but this map provides «placement of landmarks all across the genome,» says Eric Green, a molecular biologist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Margenome,» says Eric Green, a molecular biologist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, MaryHuman Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, MarGenome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

The study, the culmination of more than 10 years of research and published online in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatology in June, discovered virus - like elements within the human genome linked to the development of two autoimmune diseases: lupus and Sjogren's syndrome.

Readers will have at their fingertips key articles in the history of science from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries, including research about the human genome, breast and colon cancer genes, and the Bose - Einstein condensate in physics.

Report co-author Martin Grueber, research leader for Battelle in Cleveland, Ohio, says that the criticized input - output model is the best way to try to «get a big - picture sense» of the research done by the Human Genome Project.

Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and a key participant, calls the map «a dream come true.»

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Bethesda, Maryland, forked over $ 25 million; the state of Texas, $ 10 million; the Canadian government, $ 5 million; and the governments of Australia and New Zealand, $ 1 million each.

A high - profile claim that the Human Genome Project and associated research generated almost US$ 800 billion in economic benefits has been questioned by economists.

Over the course of a year, a committee led by Green and Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has been weighing how to handle «incidental findings» that turn up when a genome or exome is sequenced for some other medical rGenome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has been weighing how to handle «incidental findings» that turn up when a genome or exome is sequenced for some other medical rgenome or exome is sequenced for some other medical reason.

«We're part of medicine now,» Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and co-chair of the ACMG working group that wrote the report, told Science at the time.

The move comes in response to the announcement earlier this week of a new U.S. company, launched by sequencing - machine manufacturer Perkin - Elmer and J. Craig Venter of The Institute for Genomic Research, that plans a brute - force approach to sequencing the human genome within 3 years (ScienceNOW, 12 May).

Prof Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, first excavated at Gough's Cave 30 years ago, said: «I first studied «Cheddar Man» more than 40 years ago, but could never have believed that we would one day have his whole genome — the oldest British one to date!

With advances like the human genome project, we are in a position to tackle disease with the same approach and rigor used in basic research.»

«We're part of medicine now,» Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and co-chair of the ACMG working group that wrote the report, told

A year ago these geneticists, lawyers, historians and philosophers participated in a workshop at the Center for Human Genome Research of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Concerns have been stirred by reports of research in China to correct disease - causing genetic mutations in non-viable embryos in 2015 and the granting, by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), of a licence to allow genome editing of embryos in the UK February 2016.

«We have milked CAE for most of the cost reduction we are going to get,» says Jeff Schloss at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Bethesda, Maryland, US, which funds Ju's work.

Already scientists at Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Maryland — a biotech company affiliated with Venter's research institute — have begun working on a more effective vaccine against Haemophilus.

In a global culture increasingly driven by scientific and technological innovation, research in areas ranging from microbial genomes to the human brain will become ever more inextricably linked to public health, medicine, and industrIn a global culture increasingly driven by scientific and technological innovation, research in areas ranging from microbial genomes to the human brain will become ever more inextricably linked to public health, medicine, and industrin areas ranging from microbial genomes to the human brain will become ever more inextricably linked to public health, medicine, and industry.

Dr. Frankel is currently directing or co-directing projects related to the ethical and policy implications of human germ - line interventions, the responsible use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research, improving patient safety and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in scihuman germ - line interventions, the responsible use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research, improving patient safety and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in sciHuman Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in science.

But while the Johns Hopkins team stressed the importance of techniques developed by the Human Genome Project, Fishel pointed out that his team «built on 25 years of basic scientific research» in bacterial and yeast genetics.

With all her troubles, little Katlyn Demerchant had been almost made to order for Fabio Candotti, a senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Francis Collins, who heads the National Center for Human Genome Research in Bethesda, Maryland, called the find the «most exciting news of this year in genetic medicine».

The IBS research team (Center for Genome Engineering) has successfully confirmed that CRISPR - Cas9 has accurate on - target effects in human cells, through joint research with the Seoul National University College of Medicine and ToolGen, Inc..

Contributing to the work were researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the NIH Clinical Center, all part of NIH, along with their colleagues in Turkey and the United Kingdom.

«The quality of this sequence is comparable to the first sequencing of the human genome as published 15 years ago, which revolutionized biomedical research at that time,» enthuses Matthias Platzer — research group leader at the FLI and involved in both the human and fish genome sequencing progressions.

Guttmacher, a geneticist and pediatrician, had been Collins's deputy director when Collins headed the National Human Genome Research Institute; he became acting director of NHGRI after Collins stepped down in August 2008.

Allen served on the original National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and its Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Working Group in the 1990s.

«Having this complete set of instructions gets us one step closer to understanding how a free organism functions,» points out Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, validated the same biomarkers in 46 patients with MMA seen at the NIH Clinical Center.

The sequencing of the N. furzeri genome represents a milestone for human aging research - since almost all genes of the little fish are also present in humans.

In order to locate all gene switches, the Freiburg research team used modern sequencing methods to examine the entire genome — DNA, epigenetic markers and RNA — during the development, maturation and disease of human cardiac muscle cells.

Indeed, according to a report last year by the research and management organization Battelle, «In 2010 alone, the human genome sequencing projects and associated genomics research and industry activity directly and indirectly generated $ 67 billion in U.S. economic output and supported 310,000 jobs that produced $ 20 billion in personal income.&raquIn 2010 alone, the human genome sequencing projects and associated genomics research and industry activity directly and indirectly generated $ 67 billion in U.S. economic output and supported 310,000 jobs that produced $ 20 billion in personal income.&raquin U.S. economic output and supported 310,000 jobs that produced $ 20 billion in personal income.&raquin personal income.»

• Piero Anversa at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, and Donald Orlic at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, used mouse bone marrow to repair damaged mouse hearts.