Sentences with phrase «of human genome research»

These rapid changes have left some observers feeling that the ethical and legal implications of human genome research have not been taken seriously by those who undertake and benefit from such work.

As a consequence, many major projects in scientific research, including in the field of human genome research, are conducted by large pharmaceutical companies, not universities or government research institutes.

The mission of Interactive Biosoftware is to provide geneticists and researchers with the most sophisticated software that is easy to use and reliable to make appropriate diagnostics, surveillance, and information sharing between, and across, all tiers of human genome research.

Ms. Lewis's presentation of her human genome research project entitled, HERV - W env Glycoprotein Syncytin - 1 Plays Critical Role in Immunosuppression of the Semi-Allogenic Fetus and Development of Mammalian Placenta (Omar Bagasra, MD, PhD, Mentor), won a $ 1,000.00 scholarship in the APRS» first year of presenting awards.

Buffeted by the shifting winds of human genome research, government officials have decided to close an 8 - year - old collection of human gene maps maintained by Johns Hopkins University.

If it does, then the future rewards of human genome research will extend well beyond medicine and the linking up of genes and diseases.

I moved to the NIH in 1993 to take on this role of directing what was then called the Center (and is now called the Institute) of Human Genome Research, stepping into the shoes of Jim Watson.

Not exact matches

«DNA is so unique, and there are so many data sources out there, that it is incredibly hard to fully anonymize — and more so to promise and provide any absolute guarantee that the data are anonymized,» says Laura Lyman Rodriguez, the director of policy, communications and education at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

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.

The point being that nobody knows how different the intron or non-protein coding sequences are between humans and other primates because the research quoted is only on the exons, or protein coding portions of the genome.

Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and author of The Language of God, is something of a hybrid apologist.

There's some great research being done on the topic of evolution, especially the claim that there are only so many differences between other primates and humans genomes (I don't remember the exact number).

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 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.

«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.

He directs The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), an initiative of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute.

Addressing a molecular medicine congress, Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and a founder of the Human Genome Project, urged Germany to overcome widespread hostility to genetics research and focus on the great benefits that applying genome research can offer humaGenome Project, urged Germany to overcome widespread hostility to genetics research and focus on the great benefits that applying genome research can offer humagenome research can offer humankind.

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.

But when the researchers compared the genomes of opossums and humans, they found a surprising number of similar immune - related genes, meaning it's useful for just the opposite of the expected reason: The gray short - tailed opossum is a nice model for immunology research.

«They are developing the clinical genomics necessary to foster and support the Precision Medicine Initiative of the National Institutes of Health, and generating the genomics data that further drives human genome research.»

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.

This avenue of research is still new, since we have only recently begun to decode the mysteries of the human genome, but studies are emerging every year.

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.

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.

But when she got an offer to start her own research group studying the evolutionary history of Latin Americans at Mexico's new human genome research institute, less than 3 years after finishing her Ph.D., she couldn't turn it down.

«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 scientists noted that the steady flow of human genome data has been a boon to research and has not cluttered up databases with incomplete information, as some had feared.

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).

«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

She received her predoctoral fellowship at National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

«Right now, the research group is analyzing the nuclear genome the results of which could provide us with information about its relationship with the Neanderthals and about the existence of genomic variations associated with the immune system that accounts for the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens over other human species with whom it co-existed.

Its projected price tag of $ 1.5 billion over a decade was whittled down to a 3 - year, $ 100 million pilot, to be split between NCI and the National Human Genome Research Institute.

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.

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.

The mapping of the human genome, the growth of information technology, and the globalisation of medicines research and development to international standards are just some of the changes that have had a major impact on how medicines are discovered and developed.

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».