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The NIH Loosens Grip on Gene Therapy Trials
The NIH Loosens Grip on Gene Therapy Trials
The agency proposes ceding its scrutiny of these studies to the FDA.
The NIH Loosens Grip on Gene Therapy Trials
The NIH Loosens Grip on Gene Therapy Trials

The agency proposes ceding its scrutiny of these studies to the FDA.

The agency proposes ceding its scrutiny of these studies to the FDA.

genetics & genomics, NIH

Genome Collector: A Profile of Charles Rotimi
Anna Azvolinsky | Oct 1, 2018 | 9 min read
The NIH epidemiologist has worked to ensure genetic health and population genetics studies contain data from African—not just European—populations.
NIH Plans to Enroll 1 Million People for Health Database
Catherine Offord | May 3, 2018 | 2 min read
The agency says it has taken various steps to ensure the privacy of participants’ data. 
Disease-Causing Mutations in Healthy People
Amanda B. Keener | Jun 8, 2015 | 1 min read
A large-scale genome sequencing effort identifies mutations with disease-causing potential at higher rates than expected.
Focus on Sex
Molly Sharlach | Dec 28, 2014 | 3 min read
In 2014, new research findings and guidelines brought increased attention to biological differences between males and females.
NIH Issues Genomic Data Sharing Rules
Jyoti Madhusoodanan | Aug 27, 2014 | 1 min read
Updated guidelines expand upon existing policy to include more kinds of data. 
NIH Expands Undiagnosed Diseases Program
Tracy Vence | Jul 3, 2014 | 1 min read
The National Institutes of Health is funding six extramural medical centers to help identify the causes of mysterious diseases.
Week in Review: February 3–7
Tracy Vence | Feb 6, 2014 | 3 min read
Federal stem cell regulations vary; Salmonella exploit host immune system; microglia help maintain synaptic connections; prosthesis re-creates feeling of touch
Governing Science
Abby Olena, PhD | Dec 30, 2013 | 5 min read
How the US government impacted life science research in 2013
Q&A: NIH Brokers HeLa Genome Deal
Bob Grant | Aug 6, 2013 | 6 min read
Officials at the government agency hammer out an agreement with the Lacks family to provide restricted access to genomes of their relative’s unwittingly donated cells.
Real-time Outbreak Sequencing
Dan Cossins | Dec 19, 2012 | 4 min read
Sequencing the whole genomes of bacterial pathogens as they spread among hospital patients and health care workers could transform the control of infectious disease.
NIH Launches Genetics Test Database
Jef Akst | Mar 1, 2012 | 1 min read
The federal agency unveils a collection of thousands of genetic tests for some 2,500 diseases.
The Human Genome Project, Then and Now
Walter F. Bodmer | Oct 1, 2011 | 3 min read
An early advocate of the sequencing of the human genome reflects on his own predictions from 1986.
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.
Your gut online
Bob Grant | May 26, 2011 | 1 min read
Sequences from a US government-funded program to paint a genomic picture of the human gut's complex ecosystem are going public for the first time since the effort started in 2008. Researchers sequenced thousands of samples taken from 300 healthy v
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