Precision Genomics Collaboratory News

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hoping to give people a different kind of superpower: protection from potentially lethal health threats

Xiling Shen, Ph.D., received $400,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to become a part of CZI’s Seed Networks for the Human Cell Atlas, along with 37 other collaborative science teams.

Giant Axonal Neuropathy (GAN), has fewer than 100 known cases, which makes research – and therefore treatment options – scarce.

Diet fads that influence consumers to deprive their bodies of certain foods, such as the Atkins low-carb diet program, have been around for decades.

Svati Shah, MD, MHS, has been named Associate Dean of Genomics and Director of the Duke Precision Genomics Collaboratory. The collaboratory is a new coordinating center that will serve as the nexus for genetics and genomics activities in the School of Medicine. As director, Dr. Shah will coordinate efforts among institutes, centers and departments in all areas of genetics and genomics, ranging from fundamental basic science to clinical genomics and precision medicine.

Like fingerprints, everyone has a unique gut microbiome.

The goals of this FOCUS cluster are to explore genome sciences in various contexts as well as explore the biomedical, biological, historical, technical, and ethical implications of genomic advances and the questions that these advances pose for understanding the past and contemplating the future of biomedicine.

Duke PhD student Marcel Frenkel knows this problem well, as he watched his mom’s pancreatic cancer develop resistance to her therapies and pass away in 2015.

The Gilbert Family Foundation, a private foundation established by Jennifer and Dan Gilbert, announced its first major initiative around gene therapy research.

Greg Wray is one of five faculty members and one staff member from Duke to be named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).