Qlucore, leading software provider of powerful visualization-based bioinformatics data analysis tools for research and precision diagnostics, is working with leading scientific experts at Lund University (Sweden), Gothenburg University (Sweden) and in China to develop new diagnostics methods and software solutions ...
Read More »NYIT researcher receives NHGRI grant to unlock mysteries in RNA sequencing
RNA nucleotide modifications have been linked to major diseases such as breast cancer, type-2 diabetes, and obesity. More than 40 RNA nucleotide modifications have recently been discovered in SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19...
Read More »Ceres Nanosciences receives SBIR grant to adapt its virus capture technology to portable RNA sequencing tools for improved SARS-CoV-2 surveillance
Ceres Nanosciences, a privately held company that makes innovative products to improve the detection of low abundance analytes, including viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, has received a $243,000 Phase I SBIR award from the United States Centers for Disease...
Read More »Grant will fund single-cell RNA sequencing study of link between senescence and Parkinson’s disease
A collaborative team between the University of Minnesota Medical School and Van Andel Institute (VAI) will soon begin a $6.2 million study that seeks to define the molecular linkages between aging and Parkinson’s disease — an approach for new treatment ...
Read More »UTHSC researchers receive grants to develop and refine novel artificial intelligence approaches to study single-cell RNA-sequencing data
Siamak Yousefi, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics at the...
Read More »UMASS microbiologist receives NIH grant to advance anti-viral strategies
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 ...
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