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Prominent Mouse Genetics Center Could be Shuttered
Staff at the UK’s Harwell Institute were notified that a strategy board recommended halting its academic work, but a final decision is months away.
Prominent Mouse Genetics Center Could be Shuttered
Prominent Mouse Genetics Center Could be Shuttered

Staff at the UK’s Harwell Institute were notified that a strategy board recommended halting its academic work, but a final decision is months away.

Staff at the UK’s Harwell Institute were notified that a strategy board recommended halting its academic work, but a final decision is months away.

funding, genetics & genomics

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CRISPR Babies Trial May Have Been Government Funded
Shawna Williams | Feb 25, 2019 | 3 min read
Documents about the experiment challenge a Chinese government investigation’s finding that He Jiankui mostly acted alone.
The Open Data Explosion
Viviane Callier | Jan 1, 2019 | 8 min read
Scientists are working to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of sharing.
Scientists Play Favorites with Studying Human Genes. Here’s Why.
Sukanya Charuchandra | Sep 19, 2018 | 2 min read
Despite the Human Genome Project having heralded the exploration of previously unknown human genes, the focus of genetic studies remains narrow.
Breakthrough Prizes Recognize Geneticists, Big Bang Researchers
Catherine Offord | Dec 3, 2017 | 2 min read
Among this year’s winners are a geneticist who revealed how plants respond to shade and a group of physicists who mapped the universe’s background radiation.
Additional #IceBucketChallenge Payoffs
Jef Akst | Jul 28, 2016 | 2 min read
Researchers identify a new ALS-associated gene thanks to funds generated by the social media challenge that went viral in summer 2014.
Week in Review: August 19–23
Tracy Vence | Aug 23, 2013 | 3 min read
The importance of smORFs; America Invents Act and innovation in biotech; birds adjust their behavior to avoid cars; in defense of fundamental science
Price Drop for Sequencing Slows
Bob Grant | May 16, 2013 | 1 min read
The cost of DNA sequencing has gotten more expensive for the first time since records have been kept.
Speaking of Science
The Scientist | Jan 1, 2012 | 2 min read
January 2012's selection of notable quotes
$400M for Personalized Medicine
Edyta Zielinska | Dec 8, 2011 | 1 min read
The National Institutes of Health promises about $400 million to help get personalized genetics into the clinic.
The Scientist, Inaugural Issue, 1986
Jef Akst | Oct 1, 2011 | 2 min read
Twenty-five years later, the magazine is still hitting many of the same key discussion points of science.
Five Life-Science MacArthur Winners
Edyta Zielinska | Sep 22, 2011 | 2 min read
This year’s winners research topics ranging from stem cell regulation to brain damage from football injuries.
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