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Newborn screening tests use a dried blood sample collected during the first week after birth to measure the presence of disease biomarkers.
… Newborn screening tests use a dried blood sample collected during the … characteristic that is indicative of a disease). … Newborn screening in the United States is a major public health … has saved countless lives. Each state runs its own newborn screening program, where almost all newborns are tested for …
Educational Resources
Fact sheets explaining complex concepts in genomics research to a non-scientific audience.
… DNA Sequencing, Epigenomics, Knockout Mice, Newborn Screening, Cost Of Sequencing A Human Genome, X Chromosome, Y …
Policy Issues
Scientific institutions are developing recommendations to support the responsible use of human gene-editing research.
… research. Dr. Shawn Burgess' lab at NHGRI has developed a high-throughput pipeline that can create multiple, simultaneous …
Policy Issues
Scientists have edited genomes for many years, but CRISPR technology has improved the speed, cost, accuracy, and efficiency of genome editing
… recombination is that it is inaccurate and has a high rate of error when the injected DNA fragments insert … J., Xu, L. S., Gallardo, V., . . . Burgess, S. M. (2015). High-throughput gene targeting and phenotyping in zebrafish using …
Policy Issues
Federally-funded research with human participants must comply with regulations that protect the rights and welfare of the participants.
… … Technological advances in DNA sequencing have made high-throughput sequencing methods significantly faster and …
Policies and Guidance
Frequently Asked Questions regarding the GDS Policy expectations for NHGRI-funded genomic research.
… molecular data produced by array-based technologies or high-throughput sequencing technologies. Data pertinent to the …
About Genomics
In 2003, an accurate and complete human genome sequence was finished two years ahead of schedule and at a cost less than the original estimated budget.
… Functional Analysis Develop genomic-scale technologies High-throughput oligonucleotide synthesis DNA microarrays …
Fact Sheets
A knockout mouse is a laboratory mouse in which researchers have inactivated an existing gene by replacing it or disrupting it with an artificial piece of DNA.
… known, researchers can precisely knock out the gene at a high rate of efficiency. The advantage of gene trapping is … in gene trapping, a single vector can be used in a high throughput capacity to generate a suite of mice in which …
Policy Issues
Hay leyes y políticas que sirven para proteger la privacidad de la información genómica de un individuo.
… la Evaluación del Recién Nacido que Salva Vidas ( Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act ) apoya los …
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Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,”
… Project (HGP) and, more recently, advances in genomic screening technologies, there is some concern about whether … genetic diagnoses. The possible genomic-based screening of embryos for behavioral, psychosocial and/or … certain individuals. Some geneticists view both genomic screening and genetic counseling as an extension of eugenics. …