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Synthetic biology is a field of science that involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities.
…  showed that it was possible to create the polio virus from scratch and brought attention to the risk that … genome editing technologies. As the synthesis of the polio virus demonstrates, there are also biosecurity concerns …
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Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means to the pediatric mitochondrial disease community.
… When children with mitochondrial disease get sick with any virus, this experience can be life-threatening, as their …
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Dr. Daniel Shriner is a researcher in NHGRI's Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… studied the population genetics of human immunodeficiency virus type 1, focusing on recombination and metapopulation … infection from the same source: human immunodeficiency virus type 1 evolution and antiviral responses. J. Virol. … Mullins, J. I. 2002. Selection for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 recombinants in a patient with rapid progression …
The Genomics Landscape
In the May 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details how NIH is ramping up research on COVID-19; NHGRI's expansion of its Genome Technology Program; and the the DiY Genome: Unlocking Life's Code exhibition toolkit.
… are available that provide relevant information about the virus and the disease it causes, such as those at the Centers …
News Release
NHGRI has selected James Thomas, Ph.D., as the new director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC), to will oversee the importation and use of DNA sequencing technologies, protocols and analyses, ensuring that NIH investigators have access to cutting-edge DNA sequencing methods and specialized genomics protocols to meet their research needs.Â
… understand the molecular basis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and immune response. NISC also provided DNA sequencing …
Educational Resources
A carcinogen is an agent with the capacity to cause cancer in humans.
… de reciclar restos celulares de desecho. Pueden destruir virus y bacterias invasoras. Si la célula es dañada y no …
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research
The Director's Report Related documents contain links to materials supplemental to Dr. Eric Green's Director's Report presentation to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research in May 2020.
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the 10th anniversary of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program.
News Release
NHGRI researchers seek help from people with Sickle Cell Disease to find the factors - environmental, social and genetic - that impact the severity of symptoms.