Likelihood of Getting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Could Be Linked To Genetics
In New York, scientists from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium PTSD Working Group found that genetics have more to do with getting post traumatic stress...
First-ever cancer genomic profiling program offered to more than 2M Americans
In Maryland, LifeMark Partners, Inc., an independent national insurance marketing organization, announced that a complimentary cancer genomic profiling program will be exclusively available to...
Kush Expanding From Cannabis Packaging and Supplies to Terpenes Genomics Lab
In California, Kush Bottles, Inc., originally a packaging and supplies company for cannabis dispensaries and growers, is expanding with its new Product Development and...
When Freezing Isn’t Freezing Enough – UNM Has New Nitrogen Tanks to Better Preserve...
In New Mexico, an expanded and better protected biological material repository has opened up at the University of New Mexico’s Division of Genomic Resources...
Canada using DNA technologies to speed up agricultural imports and exports
In Canada, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is using DNA-based technologies to help speed up the...
Regeneron, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and others to accelerate largest ‘big data’ genome biobank
In New York, Regeneron plans to sequence the exomes of all 500,000 people within the UK Biobank resource, all with associated health records, creating...
Sourdough bread microbes unlock key for microbiomes
In Massachusetts, Tufts University and North Carolina State University researchers are looking at microbes present in over 570 sourdough bread samples from around the...
Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic resistant bacteria in guts
In the United Kingdom, surfers and bodyboarders are three times more likely to have antibiotic resistant E. coli in their guts than non-surfers, new...
Sheep Show Biomarkers and Hope for Huntington Disease
In the United Kingdom, researchers found certain biomarkers that became apparent in sheep before symptoms even developed for Huntington disease, a genetic neurodegenerative disorder...
Bigger better beefsteak tomatoes thanks to genomics
In Georgia, geneticists found that the gene variant called Cell Size Regulator is responsible for the size of various cultivated and wild tomatoes. They...