Precision Genomics Collaboratory News

A team of Duke researchers has identified a group of human DNA sequences driving changes in brain development, digestion and immunity that seem to have evolved rapidly after our family line split from that of the chimpanzees, but before we split with the Neanderthals.

A deeply emotional experience with cancer and a fortunate discovery of the work being conducted by Bruce Donald, PhD, helped Ten63 Therapeutics began to take shape.

A new publication from the lab of Greg Wray explores the developmental gene regulatory networks of sea urchins.

Svati Shah received the Genomic and Precision Medicine Mentoring Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) at the AHA’s Scientific Sessions in Chicago, Illinois, on November 5.

It’s not enough to just publish a great scientific paper.

Somebody else has to think it’s great too and include the work in the references at the end of their paper, the citations. The more citations a paper gets, presumably the more important and influential it is. That’s how science works — you know, the whole standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants thing.

Priya Kishnani received one of North Carolina’s highest civilian honors, the North Carolina Award, on November 15 for her contributions to science.

The microbes that help break down food actually tell the gut how to do its job better.

Duke researchers are gaining a better understanding of how nutrient deprivation affects development.

New tool provides a framework to identify human genetic determinants of infectious disease outcomes

Experts at Duke Health were among a multi-national team involved in treating a fetus for infantile-onset Pompe disease using an enzyme replacement therapy – a first in the world.