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TIGR Completes Study Providing Insight into Infectious Strain of Bacterium that Causes Otitis, Pneumonia and Meningitis
TIGR Scientists Complete the First Genome Sequence of an Oral Pathogen Associated with Severe Adult Periodontal Disease
The TIGR Comprehensive Microbial Resource (CMR) has been updated with the release of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Mycoplasma pulmonis.
TIGR and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have launched a new web site on the Aspergillus fumigatus genome project.
USDA Research Agency and TIGR Sequence Genome of Food Borne Pathogen
TIGR Offers Free Genomics Education Course to High School Teachers
TIGR and the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya announce a new web site on the Theileria parva genome project
Dates have been posted for the free Genomics Education Course for high school teachers
More Extensive Analysis Casts Doubt on Claim of Bacterial Genes in Humans
New findings do not support a recent analysis of the rough draft of the human genome that suggests that bacterial genes have been laterally transferred into the human genome.
TIGR Awarded Grant to Sequence Deadly Fungal Disease
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After two years of intensive sampling in the waters off California and the west coast of the United States, the Sorcerer II Expedition embarked once again on March 21, 2009. Our destination: the Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Seas. Funded by generous donations from the Beyster Family...
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Sailing the Seas in Search of Microbes
Projects aimed at collecting big data about the ocean’s tiniest life forms continue to expand our view of the seas.
What the Public Should Not Know
J. Craig Venter, PhD, argues scientists have “a moral obligation to communicate what they're doing to the public,” and that more studies deserve greater public criticism.
Scientists coax cells with the world’s smallest genomes to reproduce normally
The discovery could sharpen scientists’ understanding of which functions are crucial for normal cells and what the many mysterious genes in these organisms are doing
San Diego arts, health, science and youth groups to share $71M from Prebys Foundation
The J. Craig Venter Institute is the recipient of three awards totaling more than $1.5M to study SARS-CoV-2 and heart disease
Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the First Publication of the Human Genome
A new wave of research is needed to make ample use of humanity’s “most wondrous map”
Scientists rush to determine if mutant strain of coronavirus will deepen pandemic
U.S. researchers have been slow to perform the genetic sequencing that will help clarify the situation
After saving countless lives, Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith retires as his own health falters
He has been a fixture in San Diego science for decades
The 'Wondrous Map': Charting of the Human Genome, 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton announced completion of what was arguably one of the greatest advances of the modern era: the first draft sequence of the human genome.
Craig Venter: 20 years of decoding the human genome
The human genome is 99% decoded, the American geneticist Craig Venter announced two decades ago. What has the deciphering brought us since then?
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