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On September 23, 2024, the NHGRI ELSI Program hosted a pre-application webinar to provide an overview of a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the ELSI Congress to support the organization of the next series of ELSI Congress meetings in 2026, 2028 and 2030.
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Researchers have found powerful clues to why certain processes and systems in the mouse are so different from those in people.
… information to determine when the mouse is an appropriate model to study human biology and disease, and may help to … San Diego. "We have known that the mouse was mostly a good model for humans. We found that many processes and pathways … shared, potentially limiting the mouse's use as a disease model. Mice and humans share approximately 70 percent of the …
News Release
Over the last 20 years, three families have been unknowingly linked to one another by an unknown illness. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other organizations have now identified the cause of the illness, a new disease called CRIA syndrome. The results of their work were published on Dec. 11 in the journal Nature.
Virtual Exhibit
The Gene Sweepstakes — or GeneSweep as it became popularly known — was a three-year-long, sweepstakes-style contest organized by British bioinformatician Ewan Birney, Ph.D., of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Scientists participated in the contest by betting on the total number of protein-coding genes that would be identified in the human genome sequence generated by the Human Genome Project.
Jobs at NHGRI
NHGRI has four position openings for Health Scientist Administrators (Program Director and Scientific Review Officer). Program Director positions will have a special concentration in informatics and data science and will be located in the Division of Genomic Medicine, the Division of Genome Sciences, or the Office of Genomic Data Science. Scientific Review Officers will reside in the Division of Extramural Operations and will organize peer review meetings for all areas of genomic research at NHGRI.
Educational Resources
A knockout typically refers to an organism that has been genetically engineered to lack one or more specific genes.
… genes from an organism. Scientists create knockout organisms to study the impact of removing a gene from an …
Educational Resources
Mendelian inheritance refers to certain patterns of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
… to patterns of inheritance that are characteristic of organisms that reproduce sexually. … Mendelian Inheritance, …
Educational Resources
An organelle is a subcellular structure that has one or more specific jobs to perform in the cell, much like an organ does in the body.
Policy Issues
Federally-funded research with human participants must comply with regulations that protect the rights and welfare of the participants.
… and discoveries that could not be otherwise obtained using model organisms or other methods. All federally-funded research … of genetic markers for human diseases. While model organisms remain powerful research tools, working with …
About NHGRI
NHGRI is advancing human health and spurring innovation by building bridges between our research laboratories and the academic, non-profit and private sectors.
… to proceed pending final negotiation and review. A model agreement developed by the NCI is provided. … of intellectual property rights to the collaborator. A model agreement developed by the NCI is provided. Materials … of confidential research information. Several different model versions of CDA's developed by the NCI are provided. … …