The correlation between low socioeconomic status (SES) and poor health outcome or higher risk of disease has been consistently reported by many epidemiological studies across various race/ancestry groups. However, the biological mechanisms...
Read More »NYIT faculty members to develop novel direct RNA sequencing methods under multi-year NIH grant
NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) faculty members Shenglong Zhang, Ph.D., and Wenjia Li, Ph.D., have won a cutting edge research award (R21) from the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute to develop novel direct RNA sequencing ...
Read More »Public RNA-Seq Data Analysis using WebMeV
In genomics and computational biology. there is too often a divide between those who generate the data and those who analyze it. A physician scientist treating ovarian cancer patients will approach the analysis of ovarian cancer gene expression data with ...
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 »Bioo Scientific awarded two SBIR grants to enable the improvement of single cell sequencing technologies
Bioo Scientific is developing tools which will allow researchers to study dynamic variation in epigenomics from a single cell. Until now, single-cell analysis of DNA methylation has proven itself to be technically challenging and there are no kits commercially available ...
Read More »RNA-Seq – FAES Biotechnology Training Course at the NIH
What – BioTech 56: RNA-Seq When – March 14-18, 2016 Where – NIH, Bldg. 60, Room 162 National Institutes of Health (NIH) 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20892 RNA-seq or RNA sequencing is a new technology that utilizes the latest ...
Read More »Upcoming NIH VideoCast – Coupling Single-Cell RNA-seq with Tracking of Regulatory Determinants Reveals Rare Hematopoietic Transition States
Air date: Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 4:15:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local iCalendar: Add an upcoming event to your calendar. Description: Dr. Grimes received his Ph.D. in Molecular Pathology and Immunology studying gene regulation with Maureen ...
Read More »Challenges and Promises of RNA Diagnostics
Challenges and Promises of RNA Diagnostics Air date: Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 3:00:00 PM Category: WALS – Wednesday Afternoon Lectures Runtime: 01:07:25 Description: Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series There is an increasing need in the life and medical sciences to determine ...
Read More »NIH Announces Funding Opportunities for Novel Genomic Technology Development
from GenomeWeb – The National Institutes of Health announced four new funding opportunities to support the development of innovative genomic technologies across a broad range of research areas including single-cell genomics, sample preparation, transcriptomics and epigenomics, and genome-wide functional analysis. ...
Read More »Scientists use single-cell RNA-Seq to develop genetic blueprint of inner ear cell development
Using a sensitive new technology called single-cell RNA-seq on cells from mice, scientists have created the first high-resolution gene expression map of the newborn mouse inner ear. The findings provide new insight into how epithelial cells in the inner ear ...
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