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Research Roundup: October 2018

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in October 2018:

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Woo Center for Big Data and Precision Health Established at Duke Engineering

Three-year, $3+ million commitment to foster global partnerships to advance research and education at the intersection of data and...

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New Finding Could Unmask Blood Doping in Athletes

RNA changes mark old blood cells among new ones, foiling self-transfusions

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October 16, 2018

Terrie Moffitt elected to National Academy of Medicine

Co-Director of Landmark Longitudinal Study in New Zealand

Greg Crawford, Kris Woods, Tim Reddy, and Charlie Gersbach

October 16, 2018

From Innovation to Impact

When four Duke researchers developed an innovative technique for exploring the non-coding genome—the 98 percent of our DNA that does not encode protein sequences, often called the genome’s “dark matter”—the implications were clear.

October 9, 2018

ATTRACTing scientists to Duke to study vascular biology and stroke

On Thursday, October 11, Doug Marchuk will host an all-day meeting with seven other project leaders from the Leducq Foundation Network, ATTRACT: Arterial flow as an attractor for endothelial cell m

October 8, 2018

GCB Newsletter Volume 3: Fall 2018

Highlights to the current issue include:

October 1, 2018

Research Roundup: September 2018

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in September 2018

September 26, 2018

Jenny Tung wants to know how social stresses mess with genes

Being low on the pecking order often means poorer health — but why?

An artistic rendition of the epigenome controlling the 'on-off' switches of the genome

September 26, 2018

Exploring the Mechanics of Gene Expression

New NSF grant links four Duke engineers to explore how mechanical changes to genetic material affects gene expression, cancer development

Dr. Beth Sullivan and Naeema Hopkins-Kotb next to scientific poster

September 17, 2018

Summer springs into fall opportunity

Students interested in careers in genome sciences and medicine need a strong foundation of core genome sciences, technology and interdisciplinary training.

picture collage with images from four different Bass Connections Projects plus a picture of Duke Campus

September 12, 2018

Bass Connections Annual Report Out Now

Bass Connections released their 2018 Annual Report, which features the two Bas

A graphical abstract of how the team uses epigenomic editing to downregulate SNCA genes

September 12, 2018

Targeted epigenome editing as ‘next generation drugs’ for Parkinson’s disease

By 2020, the Parkinson’s Foundation estimates that nearly one million people will be living with Parkinson’s disease in the U.S.

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Events

CBB Seminar: Expanding the structural biology toolbox with high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy.

Nov 19

Alberto Bartesaghi

Duke University, Depts of Computer Science & Biochemistry
Copy number variation in vertebrate evolution and human disease

Nov 20

Craig Lowe

Duke University, Dept of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
BME Seminar: Data Science Approaches to Biological Systems

Nov 26

Madan Babu Mohan, Ph.D.

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK