Topic: National Human Genome Research Institute

Sit. Stay. Scratch.

Thanks to inbreeding, dogs are more like us than ever before. Take the golden retriever. In the past few years, the breed has begun to suffer from ...
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is proposing to expand from its current structure of two divisions — one extramural, the other...
Illumina Inc. (ILMN) shares got crushed on Friday, down 31.9% after the company guided down revenue for the just-completed September quarter ($235...

The Mouse That Could Save Steve Jobs

Apple (AAPL) founder and CEO Steve Jobs has taken medical leave from the company and speculation has it he is suffering from a pancreatic islet...
A new genetic analysis has uncovered specific regions in the DNA of certain human pancreatic cells that appear central to the regulation of insulin and other functions of the pancreas.. The new effort -- conducted by researchers at the National Human Genome Research ...

Francis Collins

Collins, Francis (1950-) is an American physician and geneticist who in the late 1900's became recognized as one of the most important and talented...
Great Danes stretch more than a meter from paw to shoulder and can easily weigh more than 90 kilograms. So a team led by Carlos Bustamante, a comparative geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Elaine Ostrander, a comparative geneticist ...
1 The sultry "dog days of summer" get their name from ancient astronomers who noticed that those days coincide with the period when Sirius, the Dog Star, rises at the same time as the sun. BioArts, a California company, recently closed its ...
No Major Impact: Some proponents of the health-care overhaul legislation said it would curb the growth of spending on health care, while opponents said it would significantly increase costs. Funding Drugs: Eli Lilly plans to invest up to $150 million in three ...
A new report from the Obama Administration makes the case that last year's $787 billion stimulus package is helping to transform the U.S. economy by fostering more innovation. The presence of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, whose department is spending $30 ...