Tag Archives: Genome

Celebrating 10th Anniversary of the Human Genome Project

April 16th, 2013 - 1:13 pm

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, a roughly 10-year, $3-billion, international effort to determine all 6 billion letters (3 billion base pairs) of human DNA. It was a major scientific achievement funded … Continue reading →

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Strategic Relationship on Genome Diagnostics

January 22nd, 2013 - 10:06 am

Mayo Clinic and Silicon Valley Biosystems (SV Bio) are announcing a strategic collaboration for whole genome diagnostics and interpretation at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and Mayo Medical Laboratories. This strategic collaboration unites SV Bio’s proprietary genome interpretation solution … Continue reading →

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Mayo Researchers Find Candidate Gene Culprits for Chronic Pain

April 30th, 2010 - 10:48 am

Chronic pain severely limits patients’ quality of life and is among the cost drivers in U.S. health care. Patients can suffer pain without an apparent cause and often fail to respond to available treatments. Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators now … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Oral Cancer Study Shows Full Tumor Genome

February 22nd, 2010 - 3:18 pm

Mayo Clinic researchers along with collaborators from Life Technologies are reporting on the application of a new approach for sequencing RNA to study cancer tumors. Their findings from a proof-of-principle study on oral carcinomas, appear in the current issue of … Continue reading →

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