Variant Bio today announced a partnership with Novo Nordisk for disease research and development that could total $50 million for the biotech startup. The Seattle company is working with genetically… Read More
What’s lurking at the Titanic shipwreck site, nearly 13,000 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic? Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate aims to help scientists find out by cataloging the genomic… Read More
Twenty years after the first human genome sequence was published, an international research team has kicked the sequencing game to the next level with a set of 64 reference genomes… Read More
From the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, genetic sleuths have been at the forefront in the global effort to monitor SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. By comparing the… Read More
Update for 5:50 p.m. PT May 28: An updated analysis proposes a different scenario for the origins of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. An evolutionary analysis based on the genome sequences… Read More
The rise of therapies that target tumors based on their genetic profile is revolutionizing how we treat cancer. It’s also creating a data overload. Around 17 million people are diagnosed… Read More
— Since Silicon Valley became home to the development of computer chips, tech has grown into something that’s seamlessly woven into just about everything we do. The history of that… Read More
How old are you? It’s an easy question to answer unless the person asking it is healthcare innovator Leroy (Lee) Hood. Hood thinks that it’s not your chronological age that… Read More
Eric Dishman is a living, breathing advertisement for the ambitious experiment he’s in charge of, the National Institutes of Health’s “All of Us” drive to collect and analyze the genomes… Read More
When the Human Genome Project launched in 1990, it was a scientific undertaking unlike anything the world had seen. Building a complete profile of our genetic makeup took billions of… Read More
Bacteria lurk pretty much anywhere you look, in numbers and varieties worthy of a horror movie. The challenge for scientists who actually want to pry into these dark corners, packed… Read More
Chinese researchers crossed a threshold last year when they used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tools to modify human embryos, and now Oregon researchers have reportedly crossed it as well. A report in… Read More
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to speed the pace of biomedical breakthroughs, is adding two more research centers to its lineup – including… Read More
The recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa was the most deadly outbreak of the disease ever recorded, infecting 28,000 people and killing 11,000. Now a new collaborative study has tracked how that… Read More
Molecular biologists have enlisted cutting-edge trends in genomics and big data to get a grip on one of the grand challenges of biotech: figuring out how protein molecules fold. But… Read More
BGI, the Shenzhen, China,-based genomics giant, announced today that it has opened a Seattle office as part of a major expansion in North America. The company is one of the largest… Read More
