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New Mobile Lab To Bolster Bioscience Education
Jan. 23, 2003 In an innovative effort to help high school bioscience education keep pace with fast-moving research advances, the nation's newest and largest mobile bioscience lab, the MdBioLab, will be launched in early February. The new lab on wheels offers state-of-the-art laboratory facilities as well as communications equipment that provides online access to video conferencing, bioinformatics databases, and other resources for students and teachers. MdBioLab, which can accommodate...
TIGR Leads New Project to Sequence Tetrahymena Genome
April 9, 2003 Two new federal grants will allow scientists to sequence and analyze the genome of the single-celled model organism Tetrahymena thermophila in a collaborative effort that will benefit a wide range of research, from experimental cell and molecular biology to comparative and functional genomics. The Tetrahymena sequencing project is being led by scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), in Rockville, MD, in collaboration with the University of California, Santa...
MdBioLab Forms Coalition With Other Mobile Bioscience Labs
June 23, 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mobile bioscience labs are on a roll. In an innovative effort to help high school bioscience education keep pace with fast-moving research advances, the nation's mobile bioscience labs are forming a coalition called MobileLabs USA to help coordinate lesson plans and to foster new teaching labs on wheels. At a news conference on June 23 at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Convention in Washington, D.C., representatives from all four mobile labs...
Bioinformatics Resource Center at TIGR to Focus on Biothreat Pathogens
July 16, 2004 Rockville, MD — The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) has signed a contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, to establish and maintain a new national Bioinformatics Resource Center for the study of pathogens that are considered biothreat agents or are associated with emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases. Under the five-year, $21.1 million contract, TIGR — an international...
TIGR and Virginia Tech Sign Memorandum for New Alliance
November 8, 2004 Rockville, MD — The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and Virginia Tech University have signed a memorandum of understanding, creating a new alliance that is expected to enhance TIGR's computational and experimental capacity as well as enrich the university's basic research capacity in the life sciences. The agreement, announced Monday by Virginia Tech President Charles Steger and TIGR President and Director Claire M. Fraser, anticipates joint research projects,...
Influenza Genome Sequencing Project Is Launched
November 15, 2004 Rockville, MD — The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) will sequence a large number of human isolates of the influenza virus as part of a landmark influenza genome sequencing project announced Monday by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The influenza sequencing project aims to help scientists better understand the emergence of annual influenza outbreaks — as well as the occasional...
Innovative Metagenomics Strategy Used To Study Oral Microbes
December 10, 2004 Rockville, MD - The mouth is awash in microbes, but scientists so far have merely scratched the surface in identifying and studying the hundreds of bacteria that live in biofilm communities that stick to the teeth and gums. In an innovative new project that could help improve the detection and treatment of oral diseases, scientists are now using a metagenomics strategy to analyze the complex and difficult-to-study community of microbes in the oral cavity. The project...
Researchers Predict Infinite Genomes
September 22, 2005 Rockville, MD — Ever since the genomics revolution took off, scientists have been busily deciphering vast numbers of genomes. Cataloging. Analyzing. Comparing. Public databases hold 239 complete bacterial genomes alone. But scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) have come to a startling conclusion. Armed with the powerful tools of comparative genomics and mathematics, TIGR scientists have concluded that researchers might never fully describe some...
First Big Influenza Genome Study Reveals Flu Evolution
October 5, 2005 Rockville, MD -- On the eve of the 2005-06 flu season, scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) have captured influenza evolution in action. In a study published in this week's journal Nature , the researchers report the first large-scale project to sequence the influenza virus. The study offers a unique snapshot of the rapidly evolving flu virus in a human population — and a new strategy for surveillance. In the study, TIGR scientists and their colleagues...
Gut Reaction: Researchers Define The Colon's Genome
June 2, 2006 Rockville, MD — For the first time, scientists have defined the collective genome of the human gut, or colon. Up to 100 trillion microbes, representing more than 1,000 species, make up a motley "microbiome" that allows humans to digest much of what we eat, including some vitamins, sugars, and fiber. In a study published in the June 2 issue of Science , scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and their colleagues describe and analyze the colon...