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The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green reflects on the milestones of the Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health (NSIGHT) Program as it reaches completion.
… to Boston, MA to hold a Town Hall in partnership with the Massachusetts General Hospital on July 17. At this event, … healthcare professionals, and interested members of the public. Specifically, the discussions will focus on genomic variation identification, association, and function …
About Genomics
February 15, 2021 marks the 20-year anniversary of publications reporting the draft human genome sequence.
…  and  Science  published two seminal papers that revealed the first detailed look at the human genome's nearly complete sequence. A part of the … costs, improved diagnosis of genetic disorders and genomic analysis in standard clinical practice. In its 2020 …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the appointment of Dr. Adam Phillippy as the founding director of the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research (CGDSR).
… genomics advances! Last year ended with exciting news from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which approved two gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease. About 100,000 Americans … improve, new methods are required to make large-scale genomic edits. Such technologies would be particularly useful …
Educational Resources
The Human Genome Project was an international project that mapped and sequenced the entire human genome.
… Human Genome Project … The Human Genome Project was an international project that mapped and sequenced the entire human genome. … Human Genome Project, Francis … as its groundbreaking approach for the free release of genomic data well ahead of publication, leading to a new …
The Genomics Landscape
In May 4, 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., details a report released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, that provided a series of recommendations for using population descriptors in future genetics and genomics studies.
… month for NHGRI, as we celebrated three anniversaries — the 70th anniversary of the discovery of DNA's double-helical structure, the 20th … using population descriptors as a proxy to describe human genomic variation. These descriptors have reflected …
Educational Resources
Teaching tools to present the foundations of genomics to students and help them understand the impact of genomics in their lives.
… Take advantage of our ready-made teaching tools to present the foundations to your students and help them understand the impact of genomics in their lives. … Genomics Teaching Tools … Teaching tools to present the foundations of genomics to your students and help them …
The Genomics Landscape
In the September 2018 edition of The Genomics landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights five new educational videos that use poetry and dance.
… Halls (one virtual, one in Seattle, Washington, and one in the California Bay Area) were open-ended discussions about the future of genomics. We continue to build on what we learn … to decipher one's ancestral origins. ' Zarko's Story: Genomic Medicine in Action ' reveals the experience of a …
The Genomics Landscape
In the May 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details how NIH is ramping up research on COVID-19; NHGRI's expansion of its Genome Technology Program; and the the DiY Genome: Unlocking Life's Code exhibition toolkit.
… Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. … Due to the current circumstance with the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming May meeting of the … through May 15, 2020. In both the short- and long-term, genomic studies have the potential to yield valuable …
Fact Sheets
Estimated cost of sequencing the human genome over time since the Human Genome Project.
… Advances in the field of genomics over the past quarter-century have led to substantial reductions … sequence to a reference human genome, sequence assembly, genomic variant calling, or annotation. Almost certainly, …
About NHGRI
The Genomics and Society Working Group advises on planning and priorities for genomics and society activities at NHGRI.
… The Genomics and Society Working Group provides advice on … priority setting for genomics and society activities at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). … The … of Genomics and Society in light of changes in genomics, genomic medicine, and the policy landscape, aiming to …