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A team from the NIH has surmounted a major obstacle to testing potential drug therapies for a rare, genetic condition called Gaucher disease.
… Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), both parts of NIH, reported in the June 11, 2014, issue of Science … NIH researchers use a new cell model of a rare disease to … A team from the NIH has surmounted a major obstacle to testing potential drug … A team from the NIH has surmounted a major obstacle to testing potential drug …
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NIH awards more than $64 million to for a database of human cellular responses called the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures or LINCS.
… Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), both part of NIH, administer the program on behalf of the NIH Common Fund. The LINCS program aims to catalog and … Developmental Systems Biology, NHLBI, and co-chair of the NIH LINCS Project Implementation Team. Even in its prototype …
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NIH researchers identified gene variants that cause a rare syndrome of sporadic fevers, skin rashes and recurring strokes, beginning early in childhood.
… The NIH group first encountered a patient with the syndrome … was no history of a similar illness in the family, the NIH group did not at first suspect a genetic cause, and … with immunosuppressive medication. However, when the NIH team evaluated a second patient with similar symptoms two …
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NIH grants aim to gauge if genomics can be used to help diagnose diabetes, manage heart disease and guide cancer clinicians to the most effective drugs.
… New National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants aim to gauge if genomics can be used to help … National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH. All three projects extend beyond the academic medical … NIH grants examine how genomic information can affect …
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The Human Genome Project was an inward voyage of discovery led by an international team of researchers looking to sequence and map all the genes of our species.
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NIH researchers have developed and released an innovative software tool, called Verso, to assemble truly complete (i.e., gapless) genome sequences from a variety of species. The software makes the process of assembling complete genome sequences more affordable and accessible.
… National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH. “We took everything we learned in the T2T project and … About NHGRI and NIH … NIH software assembles complete genome sequences on-demand … NIH researchers have developed and released an innovative … NIH researchers have developed and released an innovative …
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NIH researchers identified a novel role for a gene known as heat shock protein 60, finding it is critical in tissue regeneration and wound healing.
… 2016. NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the NIH, an agency of the Department of Health and Human … with vision loss. For more information, visit www.nei.nih.gov . About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 …
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NIH is launching a program, Molecular Phenotypes of Null Alleles in Cells (MorPhiC), to better understand the function of every human gene and generate a catalog of the molecular and cellular consequences of inactivating each gene.
… the broader research community. If Phase 1 is successful, NIH will activate a second phase to characterize a larger set … gene function when compared to other programs at NIH and NHGRI. For example, a well-established NIH effort to probe gene function has been investigating the …
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The Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Project (KOMP2) collaborates with the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) to knockout and characterize all protein-coding genes in the mouse genome.
… The Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Project (KOMP2) is a trans-NIH initiative that aims to generate a comprehensive and … stem cells. Launched in 2011 as a Common Fund and Trans-NIH program, the Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Project (KOMP2) … of the large-scale mouse mutagenesis effort. Now a trans-NIH initiative with support from 18 institutes and centers, …