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About Genomics
An interactive timeline listing key moments from the history of the project.
… ** James Watson was the first NHGRI Director and appears here as part of our history collection. Despite … career was also punctuated by a number of offensive and scientifically erroneous comments about his beliefs on … establish rapid prepublication data release as the norm in genomics and other fields. Project leaders reconvene in …
News Release
My Family Health Portrait is a downloadable tool to complete a family health history on a personal computer.
… awareness about the importance of family health history, and encourage all families to learn more about their health … CDC, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), and other partners. … My Family Health Portrait For more than … Health Portrait has a new home, the CDC Public Health Genomics Knowledge Base (PHGKB). CDC's Office of Public …
Human Genome Project
Record and submit a short video, capturing your thoughts/concerns/excitement about the launch of the Human Genome Project.
… Project. NHGRI would like you to help us commemorate and celebrate this occasion in an unconventional way: by pulling out your phone and taking a selfie video! Starting Thursday, Oct. 1 through … of the 2020 Strategic Vision for the next decade of human genomics research in late October. … Video criteria … Sharing …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Advances in genomics are helping you access information about your genome from your home.
… Advances in genomics are helping you access information about your genome … can buy a test that will read specific places in their DNA and provide them with information about their genome? … the test or delivering the results. What are the pros and cons? There are now numerous companies offering you a …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 7, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium's publishing of a collection of papers that reported the first truly complete sequence of the human genome.
… of spring brings some good budgetary news for NIH and NHGRI. On March 11, the U.S. Congress passed a Fiscal … are critical to maintaining the trust of the public in genomics research. Did you know that the top contributors of … such as long-read DNA sequencing methods and newer computational tools, aided researchers in sequencing the …
Genomics 101
Find out how the rapidly emerging field of genomics is transforming our understanding of human health and enabling advances that benefit all of humankind.
… to the way your body responds to diseases, medications, and aging. Find out how the rapidly emerging field of genomics is transforming our understanding of human health and enabling advances that benefit all of humankind. … NHGRI …
The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the new and improved Talking Glossary of Genomic and Genetic Terms - one of the premier educational resources offered by NHGRI, and it aims to help users better understand the basics of genomics and genetics.
… As the heat rises and the summer arrives, you might be looking for some indoor … Pooling datasets from multiple studies enhances the statistical power of the resulting analyses, thereby … Opportunities Educational hub for enhancing diversity in computational genomics and data science NIH director’s early …
News Release
The Social Genomics Project aims to understand what people around the world think about the intersections between genomics, genetics and society.
… Institute (NHGRI) are harnessing the power of social media and mobile phones to connect with research participants. … The Social Genomics Project, conducted by NHGRI's Social and Behavioral Research Branch (SBRB), aims to understand what people around the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 6, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about NHGRI's completion of the third phase of the ENCODE Project and how it reveals the most extensive catalog to date of candidate functional elements that may regulate the genes in the human and mouse genomes.
… M.D., Ph.D. … As the summer heat bears down on the country and the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic continues, I hope that you, your family, and your friends and colleagues remain safe and healthy. Like … more committed than ever to facilitating the use of genomics for addressing all threats to human health – …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green focuses on recent efforts to make the human genome reference sequence useful to basic and clinical researchers and how increasing the representation of human genomic variation will remain key components of NHGRI’s Human Genome Reference Program.
… the fourth annual International Summit in Human Genetics and Genomics at NIH last month. The month-long summit is designed … Genome Reference Program. Advances in DNA-sequencing and computational methods will undoubtedly continue to occur, …