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NHGRI new $1000 genome grants include Oxford Nanopore collaborators Aug 2008
The US National Human Genome Research Initiative (NHGRI) has made a further series of grants to academics who are furthering technologies for more powerful and affordable DNA analysis. The largest award was granted to a team led by members of Oxford Nanopore Technologies' Advisory Board, Professors Dan Branton and Jene Golovchenko from Harvard University.
Click here to read the NHGRI press release.
Mitochondrial DNA of Neanderthal sequenced Aug 2008
The mitochondrial DNA from the 38,000 year old remains of a Neanderthal
has been sequenced by researchers at the Max Planck Institute in
Germany. The sequence data suggest that humans and Neanderthals
separated about 660,000 years ago, and that their population was very
small. Science reports that "Human and Neandertal mitochondrial DNAs differ at 206
positions out of the 16,565 examined, while modern humans differ at
only about 100 positions when c...
