On Sept. 20, 2017, resarchers at deCODE genetics use whole-genome data from 14,000 people from across the population…
On Jul. 27, 2017, OHSU announced that Shoukhrat Mitalipov, an OHSU biologist, had successfully modified defective DNA in…
On Jun. 21, 2017, McDonnell Genome Institute announced it had received a $10 million from the National Heart,…
On Jan. 23, 2017, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) announced the development of the first stable…
On Nov. 15, 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued guidelines for DNA splicing. The guidelines set…
On Jun. 1, 2016, scientists at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health announced proof that…
On Oct. 7, 2015, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Francis Crick…
On Sept. 18, 2015, Stephen J. Elledge from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Evelyn M. Witkin from Rutgers…
On Aug. 6, 2015, a Winlock, Washington wood buyer and his lumber mill plead guilty in U.S. District…
On May 1, 2015, Wei Yang, Ph.D, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, received the…
On Mar. 26, 2015, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, announced plans to invest more than $125…
On Mar. 25, 2015, deCODE genetics published four landmark papers built on whole-genome sequence data from more than…
On Mar. 23, 2015, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Jacqueline K. Barton “to recognize…
On Mar. 11, 2015, the National Health Service (NHS) announced that Patients in the NHS had begun receiving…
On Aug. 5, 2014, the genome sequence of the common cat was published in GigaScience. The DNA of…
On May 7, 2014, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) announced that they had engineered a bacterium…
On Mar. 5, 2014, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced the creation of the Center for Embryonic…
On Feb. 12, 2014, Scientists, led by ancient DNA expert Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen and…
On Jan. 29, 2014, Neanderthal genes were unearthed in modern humans by University of Washington scientists Benjamin Vernot…
On Jan. 9, 2014, DNA was isolated from a 165-year-old intestine of a cholera victim from Philadelphia – …
On Sept. 19, 2013, Thomas Brock and Hudson Freeze received the Golden Goose Award for their discovery of…
On Jun. 26, 2013 researchers at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark announced…
On Jun. 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court Justices ruled 9-0 that naturally occurring DNA cannot be patented,…
On May 22, 2013, a research team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced they had sequenced…
On May 14, 2013, a University of Washington led team announced that DNA analysis had unearthed the origins…
On Apr. 13, 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the completion of the Human Genome Project…
On Mar. 25, 2013, for the first time, the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes —…
In Feb. 2013, the Center for Personalized Diagnostics (CPD) was established at UPenn for researching genomic and therapeutic…
On Dec. 12, 2012, deCODE genetics announced an agreement whereby Amgen acquired deCODE Genetics, a global leader in…
On Feb. 7, 2012, The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, completed the genome sequence…