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Sangeetha Raghavan is a Senior Licensing and Patenting Manager in NHGRI's Technology Transfer Office.
… transfer professional with experience in evaluating technologies in wide ranging areas of biologics, diagnostics, … molecules and software. Her experience includes assessing technologies for their patentability and commercial … variety of intellectual property agreements, and marketing technologies to facilitate the transfer of such technologies …
Policy Issues
Scientists have edited genomes for many years, but CRISPR technology has improved the speed, cost, accuracy, and efficiency of genome editing
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… grown louder due to faster, cheaper, and more efficient technologies. … of genome editing. The history of genome editing technologies shows the remarkable progress in this field and … recombination is that it is inaccurate and has a high rate of error when the injected DNA fragments insert …
News Release
NIH lost a key member of its broader genomics team when Robert Blakesley, Ph.D., director of the NISC sequencing group at NIH, retired on Dec. 31, 2015.
… 31 retirement of Robert Blakesley, Ph.D., director of the sequencing group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) in Rockville, Maryland. … "Bob's dedication to his work is sky high, only matched by his competence," said Eric Green, M.D., …
Fact Sheets
A DNA microarray is a tool used to determine whether the DNA from a particular individual contains a mutation in genes.
… related to those drugs.With the advent of new DNA sequencing technologies, some of the tests for which microarrays were used in the past now use DNA sequencing instead. But microarray tests still tend to be …
News Release
Baylor College of Medicine. Houston and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network.
… College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). Each … The two universities will become the DNA Sequencing Core sites for the UDN. The UDN also includes … programs that are expected to have exceptionally high impact. The goals of the program are to investigate …
Infographic
An infographic that explains why it was so difficult to fully complete the human genome sequence.
… Over the past two decades, researchers developed new technologies to read longer stretches of DNA - from only … genome sequence until new laboratory and computational technologies were developed. It took almost twice as long to … with a vision. Even with new technologies, genome sequencing is still tough, time-consuming work that requires …
News Release
The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium has generated the first truly complete sequence of a human Y chromosome - the final human chromosome to be fully sequenced.
… sequence particularly difficult to complete. Assembling sequencing data is like trying to read a long book cut into … of the human genome, the T2T Consortium applied new DNA sequencing technologies and sequence assembly methods, as well as …
Research Funding
GS-IT provides sequence analysis tools and software to scientists who rely on genomics in their research.
… Genome Sequencing Informatics Tools (GS-IT) provides "researcher … Genome Sequencing Informatics Tools … Genome Sequencing Informatics Tools …
Research Funding
Effort to accelerate understanding of the molecular basis of cancer using genome analysis technologies, including large-scale genome sequencing.
… and National Cancer Institute Deputy Director for Advanced Technologies and Strategic Partnerships Anna D. Barker find … basis of cancer through the application of genome analysis technologies, including large-scale genome sequencing. … genome analysis technologies, including large-scale genome sequencing. …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green features the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center.
… The NIH Intramural Sequencing Center  (NISC) sits on the top floor of a research … unassuming location houses the Center's state-of-the-art, high-throughput DNA sequencing facility. In a rather modest start … research, including the ethical considerations of genome sequencing in newborns and regulatory issues in …