The hope has always been that genetic testing can lead to not only better health care but also to preventing many health problems in the first place. That hope is going to be put to the test in a five-year research study in the North Carolina Triad.
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NC State researchers’ findings could lead to better ways of producing hybrid seeds to maximize crop productivity, or to introduce seedlessness in fruit species lacking the often-desired trait, such as raspberries, blackberries or muscadine grapes.
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Global life science giant Labcorp says it will acquire an emerging cancer genomics company in a deal worth $450 million now with the possibility of another $125 million going to its shareholders if benchmarks are met. Here are the details.
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Dr. Francis Collins, the folksy, guitar-playing director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is planning to step down Tuesday as head of the gigantic research agency and return to his previous job as the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute,
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Populations of Drosophila suzukii fruit flies – so-called “spotted-wing Drosophila” that devastate soft-skinned fruit in North America, Europe and parts of South America – could be greatly suppressed with the introduction of genetically modified D. suzukii flies that produce only males after mating, according to new research from North Carolina State University.
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Kittens could be the model for understanding infectious, sometimes deadly, diarrheal disease in both animals and children, according to new research from North Carolina State University.
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The emerging of a COVID-19 variant, especially in the United Kingdom, has health leaders scrambling to identify changes in the virus that causes the disease. And the Centers for Disease Control has enlisted global life science LabCorp to help fight that battle.
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Elo Life Systems says its blueprint of the vanilla bean genomic sequence may help improve the plant, which is highly dependant on hand-labor and has grown increasingly expensive..Genetic changes could potentially make it possible to grow the tropical bean in other geographic regions.
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AgBiome, a Triangle startup focusing on gene editing technologies, is spinning off part of its operations.
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