Articles by Steven I. Benowitz, M.A.

September 08, 2015 — NHGRI convened geneticists, biologists, clinicians, bioinformatics specialists and more to provide expert advice on the future of its Genome Sequencing Program.

September 01, 2015 — NIH will support research that incorporates DNA sequence information into electronic medical records.

August 13, 2015 — Researchers recommend more rigorous clinical study of dietary management practices for patients with IEMs, which may result in reformulating some medical foods.

August 06, 2015 — CMG investigators have made significant inroads in discovering genes underlying Mendelian conditions and have uncovered 470 new, previously unknown conditions.

July 06, 2015 — Experts discussed the gaps, challenges and opportunities in genomics at Genomic Medicine Meeting VIII: NHGRI's Genomic Medicine Portfolio, sponsored by NHGRI.

June 05, 2015 — A new method of targeting specific DNA sequences in zebrafish could accelerate the discovery of gene function and the identification of disease genes in humans.

June 04, 2015 — Researchers sequence the genomes of healthy participants, then analyze the data to find presumed, mutations that might lead to a genetic condition.

May 27, 2015 — As researchers uncover millions of DNA differences in genes, doctors struggle to know which of these inherited differences, called variants, really matter.

May 07, 2015 — NIH researchers have created a data resource show how differences in an individual's genome can affect gene activity and contribute to disease.

March 04, 2015 — Researchers find that more than 80 percent of mouse genes had variations in the nearby regulatory DNA that affects gene activity.