Precision Genomics Collaboratory News

New Platform Targets and Represses Disease-Causing Genes

Genes provide the most basic blueprint for building and regulating cell development, but as we age, these blueprints can get altered. As genes overexpress, they can cause a host of diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Pranam Chatterjee featured in Duke's Quantum Leap in AI

The computer screen in Pranam Chatterjee's lab is filled with neon-green squiggles that curl in every direction. It's a digital model of a protein in the cell of a rare pediatric cancer called alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, or ARMS.

PGC Announces Student Pilot Grant Awardees

The Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical and Graduate Education (OBGE) and Precision Genomics Collaboratory awarded 11 pilot grants of $2,000 each to SOM Biomedical PhD students. The goal of these grants is to support our students in scientific and educational efforts to bolster their graduate training experiences. These awards will help further research in a broad array of topics including congenital heart disease, influenza, pregnancy complications, cystic fibrosis and more.

Lab-Grown Muscles Reveal Mysteries of Rare Muscle Diseases

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B.