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23-Jul-2026
Press Release

ɬÀ﷬ awarded $200,000 St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant to advance childhood leukemia treatment

Grant will support novel dual-action therapy research targeting MLL-rearranged leukemias in children

08-May-2026
Press Release

Study finds DNA carrying antibiotic resistance genes can remain functional after common lab decontamination steps

Builds on ɬÀ﷬’s longstanding leadership in biosafety, biosecurity, and bioethics

09-Mar-2026
Collaborator Release

Team simulates a living cell that grows and divides

22-Jan-2026
Collaborator Release

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

28-Oct-2025
News Alert

Remembering Hamilton O. Smith

ɬÀ﷬ to Receive Grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Define the Language of Human Cell Classification

Researchers at ɬÀ﷬ (ɬÀ﷬), led by Richard Scheuermann, PhD, director of ɬÀ﷬’s La Jolla Campus, have been awarded a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation as part of the Human Cell Atlas project. ɬÀ﷬ will be...

ɬÀ﷬ Teaches Students about Genomics at Annual High Tech Fair

In January, ɬÀ﷬ was one of more than 40 San Diego STEM-related organizations who participated in the Fleet Science Center’s annual High Tech Fair. This year more than 3,000 local middle and high-school students, their teachers, and families descended upon Balboa Park throughout the two-day...

Dr. Scheuermann featured on the Illumina Genomics Podcast

In Episode 14 of the Illumina Genomics Podcast, Dr. Richard Scheuermann is the featured guest. Dr. Scheuermann discusses advancements in cell ontology, informatics, machine learning, and how his approach to biology has adapted over the years to incorporate the massive increases of data and...

New Method for Genome-wide Engineering of Viruses

Researchers at ɬÀ﷬ have been developing synthetic genomics assembly methods since 2000, addressing fundamental biological questions. Together, with researchers at Oregon Health and Science University, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Synthetic Genomics, Inc., and Vir Biotechnology,...

ɬÀ﷬ Launches New Internship Partnership with Smithsonian Science Education Center

Are you passionate about science education? If so, we have a unique hands-on opportunity for you to be a part of real teams of scientists and educators. Open to undergraduate and graduate students with no previous lab experience required.

Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientific Leadership

Through the NIDDK-funded Genomics Scholars Program, ɬÀ﷬ has provided aspiring scientists wet lab, technical, and career training. Community college students from Montgomery College (Maryland) and MiraCosta College (California) have participated, with the next cohort joining us this summer.

The 2017 ɬÀ﷬ Summer Internship Program

ɬÀ﷬’s long-running internship program just concluded its summer 2017 session with a well-attended poster symposium held in both its Rockville and La Jolla locations. Eighteen of our interns presented their research in a session open to all ɬÀ﷬ faculty and staff. Montgomery College...

Scientist Spotlight: Brett Pickett, PhD

The son of a dentist, Brett Pickett grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah focused initially on a career in the family business (his siblings are hygienists and an oral surgeon). Brett believed from an early age that he would follow in his father’s footsteps. He enrolled in Brigham Young...

Summer 2016 Intern Program

Interns in both Rockville, MD and La Jolla, CA participated in our summer 2016 internship program at the ɬÀ﷬ (ɬÀ﷬). A total of 19 interns were hired for the summer 2016 program, selected from 578 applicants. Of the 19 interns, six interns were part of the Genomic Scholar...

13-Jun-2025
GEN

Despite profound impact on bio-medical research, progress in understanding has been slow

02-Apr-2025
The San Diego Union-Tribune

Anders Dale says he will move roughly $10 million in NIH funding from UCSD to ɬÀ﷬.

12-Dec-2024
The Scientist

Synthetic biologists make artificial cells, but one particular kind isn’t worth the risk.

28-Apr-2024
Chemical & Engineering News

Gene editing could create a successful vaccine to protect against the viral disease that has killed close to 2 million pigs globally since 2021.

17-Jan-2024
Grow by Ginkgo

Amid an insulin crisis, one project aims to engineer microscopic insulin pumps out of a skin bacterium.

24-Oct-2023
Noema

There are more organisms in the sea, a vital producer of oxygen on Earth, than planets and stars in the universe.

29-Aug-2023
Vanity Fair

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.

21-Aug-2023
GEN

“Despite reducing the sequence space of possible trajectories, we conclude that streamlining does not constrain fitness evolution and diversification of populations over time. Genome minimization may even create opportunities for evolutionary exploitation of essential genes, which are commonly observed to evolve more slowly.”

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