Virologist Mandy Muller, microbiology, recently received a five-year, $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) grant from the NIH’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences to continue her advanced studies into how certain viruses, such as those in the Herpes ...
Read More »Innovate UK backs ATDBio & University of Oxford research in single-cell RNA sequencing
ATDBio, a leader in complex oligonucleotide synthesis, and a research team at the Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, have been awarded funding by Innovate UK, the UK’s Innovation Agency, to improve single-cell RNA sequencing...
Read More »New Innovator Grant awarded to study transcriptomics of embryo early development
A Cornell developmental biologist studying the genetic blueprint for how a single embryonic cell develops into a fully formed, complex organism has won a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. With a grant of $2,355,000...
Read More »Funds granted for single-cell RNA-seq heart research
Scientists at Queen’s University have been awarded grant funding by British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland (BHF NI) to investigate how heart cells change in people affected by an abnormal heart rhythm. The local heart charity has given £100,000 to Dr ...
Read More »DARPA taps Duke University’s RNA sequencing expertise to develop device for detecting exposure to WMDs
With an unparalleled collection of rare biological samples and expertise in profiling RNA sequences, Duke University physicians and engineers are playing a vital role in a major U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiative to rapidly screen individuals for ...
Read More »ReadCoor Inc receives a grant to support FISSEQ – a revolutionary sequencing platform that enables pathogen detection
ReadCoor, Inc. today announced a multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to apply their proprietary spatial sequencing technology to understand causes of childhood mortality. With this funding, ReadCoor will develop powerful methods using its FISSEQ platform – ...
Read More »NIH commits millions to advance RNA sequencing technology
“Parts of the genome remain hidden, or are extremely hard to analyze with current methods,” said Jeffery Schloss, Ph.D., director of the Division of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). “If we can’t see what’s there ...
Read More »BARDA Awards $51.9 Million Contract to DNAe to Develop Semiconductor Sequencing Platform
• First next-generation sequencing platform to receive funding from BARDA • Up to $51.9 million, contract to support testing and FDA clearance of DNAe’s sequencing platform for a series of applications • Initial focus to address two of the most ...
Read More »Inaugural Certara Biomedical research scholarship awarded to post-doc using single cell RNA-Seq for ovarian cancer research
Postgraduate oncology research student and 2016 NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholar David Morse’s mentor laboratory will receive the award Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that the ...
Read More »Lexogen Announces Research Award – Controlling RNA-Seq Experiments Using SIRVs
Sequencing has become one of the most powerful tools in state of the art research projects. Lexogen is dedicated to the development of innovative technologies that empower next generation sequencing (NGS). As much as we care about innovations, we also ...
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