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Antibiotic Resistance in Plague
March 20, 2007 ROCKVILLE, MD — A small piece of DNA that helps bacteria commonly found in US meat and poultry resist several antibiotics has also been found in the plague bacillus Yersinia pestis, gene sequence researchers report. The ability to resist many of the antibiotics used against plague has been found so far in only a single case of the disease in Madagascar . But because the same ability is present in other kinds of bacteria from a broad range of livestock, antibiotic...
J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., Announces Formation of Three Not-for-Profit Organizations
ROCKVILLE, MD--April 30, 2002 — J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., has announced today the formation of three not-for-profit organizations — the TIGR Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG), the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA), and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation. Dr. Venter will be the president and chairman of each organization and will continue his role as chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), the not-for-profit genomic...
IBEA Receives $3 Million Dept. of Energy Grant for Synthetic Genome Development
ROCKVILLE, MD--November 21, 2002 -- The Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA) has been awarded a three-year, $3 million grant from the Office of Science, Department of Energy. The grant will be used for research to develop a synthetic chromosome which is a first step in the Institute's work toward developing cost-effective and efficient biological energy sources. Nobel Laureate Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., has joined IBEA as scientific director. "With fossil fuel consumption...
Energy Department Awards $9 Million for Energy Related Genomic Research
April 24, 2003 ROCKVILLE, MD -- Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced today that the department will increase its funding to the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA) for research to better understand microbial communities and to develop new, biological methods to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and to produce hydrogen. The department will fund IBEA, headed by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., $3 million per year for the next three years. This is in addition to the...
Genomic-Based Prospective Medicine Collaboration Announced by Duke University Medical Center and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics
5/29/2003 - ROCKVILLE, Md. and DURHAM, N.C. -- The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) and Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) today announced a formal collaboration to create the first fully integrated, comprehensive practice of genomic-based prospective medicine. Through this new collaboration, Duke and TCAG plan to generate predictive and prognostic data on specific diseases that can aid both doctors and patients in the earlier detection and better treatment of these...
J. Craig Venter Science Foundation Announces $500,000 Technology Prize for Advances Leading to the $1,000 Human Genome
ROCKVILLE, MD (September 23, 2003). The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation announced today a $500,000 Genomic Technology Prize. The prize, to be awarded one time only, is aimed at stimulating the scientific and technology research community to significantly advance automated DNA sequencing so that a human genome can be sequenced for $1,000 or less as soon as possible. The prize was announced during New Frontiers in Sequencing Technology session at the 15th annual Genome Sequencing and Analysis...
Dog Genome Published by Researchers at TIGR, TCAG
September 25, 2003 Rockville, MD - Researchers at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) have sequenced and analyzed 1.5X coverage of the dog genome. The research, published in the September 26th edition of the journal Science, asserts that a new method of genomic sequencing, partial shotgun sequencing, is a cost-effective and efficient method to sequence and analyze many more large eukaryotic genomes now that there are a number of...
UCSD-TCAG Collaboration to Focus on Transformation of Genome-Based Knowledge Into Health Benefits
LA JOLLA, Ca., Sept. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) in Rockville, Md., today announced a formal collaboration in genomic medicine that combines large-scale human genome analysis with innovative medical research. Through this new collaboration, the two organizations will conduct genomic studies aimed at elucidating the links between multi-gene associations and the prediction and outcome of disease,...
NHGRI Funds Next Generation Of Large-Scale Sequencing Centers
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 7, 2003 - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today announced the selection of five centers to carry out a new generation of large-scale sequencing projects designed to maximize the promise of the Human Genome Project and dramatically expand our understanding of human health and disease. "The historic effort to produce a reference sequence of the human genome was successfully completed in April 2003. But our work is far from over. There remains a...
IBEA Researchers Make Significant Advance in Methodology Toward Goal of a Synthetic Genome
ROCKVILLE, MD (November 13, 2003). Researchers from the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA), led by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., have significantly advanced methods to improve the speed and accuracy of genomic synthesis. The IBEA researchers assembled the 5,386 base pair bacteriophage φX174 (phi X), from short, single strands of synthetically produced, commercially available DNA (known as oligonucleotides) using an adaptation of polymerase chain reaction (PCR), known as polymerase...