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Anthrax: "A Soil Bug Gone Bad"
Scientists Decipher, Analyze Genome of Bacillus anthracis
Genomic Sequencing and Analysis Conference
Genomic medicine, systems biology and "New Frontiers in Sequencing Technology" are among the hot topics to be discussed at TIGR's 15th International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference (GSAC XV), which will gather a wide range of researchers from academia, the government and the private sector to Savannah, GA, on September 21-24, 2003.
Strausberg, Leading Genomic Scientist, to Become TIGR's V.P. for Research
Genomics innovator Robert L. Strausberg, who directs the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Genomics Office, has been named as TIGR's Vice President for Research. Strausberg has played an important role in the development of innovative tools and technologies for genome research, both at the NCI - where he helped devise new ways to collect and apply genomic information that is important to cancer research - and previously at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Human Genome Research, where he headed the Sequencing Technology Branch from 1994-96.
Energy Department Awards $9 Million for Energy Related Genomic Research
Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives to Explore and Develop Clean Energy and Environmental Alternatives
Study Sheds Light on Chlamydial Pathogens
Small Genome Variations Account For Wide Range of Diseases, Victims
"Q Fever" Pathogen's Genome Is Deciphered
Small Genome Variations Account For Wide Range of Diseases, Victims
TIGR Leads New Project to Sequence Tetrahymena Genome
Small Genome Variations Account For Wide Range of Diseases, Victims
Genome Analysis Sheds Light on Mobile DNA's Role in Pathogen's Resistance to Vancomycin
TIGR's sequencing and analysis of the genome of a vancomycin-resistant strain of Enterococcus faecalis has found that nearly a third of the genome consists of "mobile elements" -- segments of DNA that can jump between organisms or their chromosones -- that appear to play an important role in helping the bacterium quickly acquire resistance to drugs.
New Mobile Lab To Bolster Bioscience Education
The nation's newest and largest mobile laboratory, the MdBioLab, will be launched in early February to help Maryland high schools enhance their bioscience education programs. TIGR has partnered with MdBio, Inc., and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute to create this innovative non-profit project.
TIGR Offers Genomics Course
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Construction of an Escherichia coli genome with fewer codons sets records
The biggest synthetic genome so far has been made, with a smaller set of amino-acid-encoding codons than usual — raising the prospect of encoding proteins that contain unnatural amino-acid residues.
Public Health is the Next Big Thing at UC San Diego
Researchers have swapped the genome of gut germ E. coli for an artificial one
By creating a new genome, scientists could create organisms tailored to produce desirable compounds
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