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A new dawn of the genomic age: five areas set to be transformed in 2023

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2022 was a banner year for genomics. In March, the collaborative T2T consortium published the first complete telomere-to-telomere sequence of the human genome, filling in the last 8% of the 3 billion base pairs that make up our DNA.

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University of Melbourne reveals design of new infectious disease institute

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The new AIID building will include a human infection challenge unit, high-containment facilities, a robotic biobanking facility, interview rooms, dry laboratories and spaces for community engagement and co-design work. It will be connected across multiple levels to the University of Melbourne’s Doherty Institute.

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GSK pumps £30m into a new Oxford University partnership

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GlaxoSmithKline has formed a five-year partnership with Oxford University to set up a new institute that will apply machine learning and functional genomics to the discovery of new medicines. ” The post GSK pumps £30m into a new Oxford University partnership appeared first on.

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Collaboration between AbbVie, Biogen and Pfizer creates world’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human health and disease

The Pharma Data

Managed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the browser gives access to results from analyses of whole exome sequencing data from 300,000 UK Biobank research participants. (Nasdaq: BIIB) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). These genetic data have been paired with detailed health information to create this browsable resource.

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WORLD’S LARGEST BROWSABLE RESOURCE LINKING RARE PROTEIN-CODING GENETIC VARIANTS TO HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE

The Pharma Data

Managed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the browser gives access to results from analyses of whole exome sequencing data from 300,000 UK Biobank research participants. (Nasdaq: BIIB) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). These genetic data have been paired with detailed health information to create this browsable resource.

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Genetic Technologies Provides Update on its COVID-19 Disease Severity Risk Test and Expansion into Germline Testing

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The UK biobank released a further dataset on COVID-19 positive patients consisting of ~4,000 confirmed COVID-19 infected patients in November 2020. The laboratory reagents are being independently cross validated at the Australian Genome Research facility (AGRF).