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Ancient marine life may be hiding in Antarctica鈥檚 Blood Falls
涩里番 awarded $200,000 St.聽Baldrick鈥檚 Foundation grant to advance childhood leukemia treatment
Grant will support novel dual-action therapy research targeting MLL-rearranged leukemias in children
Tiny, abundant ocean alga shows how life thrives where sunlight and iron are scarce
Study finds DNA carrying antibiotic resistance genes can remain functional after common lab decontamination steps
Builds on 涩里番鈥檚 longstanding leadership in biosafety, biosecurity, and bioethics
J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of 涩里番 and Diploid Genomics, Inc., dies at 79
Team simulates a living cell that grows and divides
Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter launches Diploid Genomics, Inc. (DGI), ushering in a new era in human genomics
Healthier Capital, a leading health-tech venture capital firm, joins as a co-founder and sole external investor in seed round
Scientists engineer microbial teams to transform mixed plastics into valuable products
Remembering Hamilton O. Smith
The passing of Clyde A. Hutchison, III
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Professional Development Opportunities this Summer
This summer we are offering two professional development workshops: GenomeSolver and Bioinformatics: Unlocking Life through Computation.聽 Both explore bioinformatics, microbial diversity聽and the implementation in the undergradauate or high school classrooms.聽 The GenomeSolver...
涩里番 Hosts South African Scientists to Share Microbiome Research Techniques
Two scientists from the University of Cape Town, South Africa have joined Dr. Bill Nierman鈥檚 lab for the next month as part of NIH鈥檚 Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Initiative, a training program designed to build out technical biological skills in the African research...
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Amazon Expedition
Yesterday, 涩里番 expedition scientist Jeff Hoffman embarked from Manaus on a sampling expedition of the Amazon River and its tributaries, which contains 1/5th of the Earth鈥檚 river flow. In collaboration with scientists Dr. Guilherme Oliviera and Dr. Sara Cuadros from the Centro de Excelencia...
The 2014 Summer Internship Application is Open and Announcing the Genomics Scholar Program
The 2014 Summer Internship Application is now open.聽 聽Last summer, we hosted聽49 interns from a pool of 424 applicants. They presented their research in the First Annual Summer Internship Poster Sessions held in San Diego and Rockville. The posters were judged by a team of...
Sampling: US to the Azores
I鈥檓 off again on an ocean sampling voyage but this time instead of being onboard the 涩里番鈥檚 Sorcerer II, I am onboard the R/V Endeavor as part of a multi-institution, international scientific sampling team that is headed from the US to the Azores. On Thursday August 22 we left Morehead...
Thule, Greenland - Day One
Arrived at Thule, Greenland after a 5 hr flight from Copenhagen. It was pretty interesting seeing a long line of people all getting on a flight that was headed to a part of the world that usually has less than 600 people there at any given time. Arrival was pretty straightforward, no jetway, no...
Thule, Greenland - Day Three
Day three started with me missing breakfast. It seems that folks around here only eat breakfast between 5am and 8am. Today was a very rough day for sampling.聽 涩里番 an hour drive to the area near the site, about a three-mile hike to one spot another half-mile hike to another spot followed...
The Next Generation Science Standards are Ready for Review
The second draft is ready for public comment through January 29th. Please be sure to take some time to review. http://www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards
Plant Bioinformatics Workshop
涩里番 recently held its 3rd Annual Plant Bioinformatics Workshop from July 15-19th. During the week-long workshop, 20 scientists from the Plant Research community visited 涩里番 and learned many aspects of Bioinformatics from the members of Chris Town鈥檚 Plant Genome group. Attendees included...
If created, these versions of the building blocks of life could lead to environmental and ecological disaster
Despite profound impact on bio-medical research, progress in understanding has been slow
Anders Dale says he will move roughly $10 million in NIH funding from UCSD to 涩里番.
Synthetic biologists make artificial cells, but one particular kind isn鈥檛 worth the risk.
Gene editing could create a successful vaccine to protect against the viral disease that has killed close to 2 million pigs globally since 2021.
Amid an insulin crisis, one project aims to engineer microscopic insulin pumps out of a skin bacterium.
There are more organisms in the sea, a vital producer of oxygen on Earth, than planets and stars in the universe.
In a new book (coauthored with Venter), a Vanity Fair contributor presents the oceanic evidence that human activity is altering the fabric of life on a microscopic scale.
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