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This week, researchers at the University of Minnesota will begin testing metro wastewater for monkeypox. It's an extension of a partnership with the Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant to conduct surveillance for COVID-19 levels in the metro area​.

The FINANCIAL-- Among primates, including humans, hair is an important feature of diversity and evolution, serving functions tied to thermoregulation, protection, camouflage and signaling. However, the evolution of wild primate hair has remained relatively understudied until recently. Now, University of Massachusetts evolutionary anthropologist Jason Kamilar and researchers from the Primate Genomics Lab at the GeorgeThe FINANCIAL-- Among primates, including humans, hair is an important feature o...

Among primates, including humans, hair is an important feature of diversity and evolution, serving functions tied to thermoregulation, protection, camouflage and signaling.

Bangladesh today detected its first cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in two female cricketers of the Bangladesh Cricket Team.

Two players of Bangladesh women’s national cricket team, who tested positive for Covid-19 last week, were infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

The new Norton Cancer Institute Genomics Lab in Louisville, also known as next generation sequencing, is cutting the amount of time it takes for doctors and patients to get a cancer diagnosis.

The UF/IFAS Blueberry Breeding and Genomics Lab is responsible for breeding and cultivating many varieties of the beloved blueberry. Patricio Muñoz, an assistant professor at UF’s Horticultural Science Department, is the principal investigator at the lab. 

Author of the article: Nugget Staff Publishing date: Mar 16, 2021  •  March 16, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Tara McGoey, left, outlines some of the results of a DNA sequencing operation to Kashif Khan, CEO of The DNA Company, Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota and Canadore College president George Burton, in September, 2019, at the official opening of the Functional Genomics Lab at Canadore. The lab will be part of a provincewide effort to sequence and characterize coronavirus...

UF in the early stages of AI transformation The $70 million supercomputer is currently available to researchers, but AI courses for students will be available Fall 2021 Photo by Ashley Hicks | The Independent Florida Alligator As soon as Fall 2021, UF students can learn how to use artif...

Canadore College’s Genomics Lab utilized for COVID-19 testing SHARE ON: Canadore College is partnering with a Sudbury company to conduct COVID-19 testing. RapidScreen is a private COVID-19 testing enterprise that offers a quick turnaround between testing employees for coronavirus and getting results. “Canadore College welcomes the opportunity to contribute technology and expertise to increase the capacity of the private sector to test for COVID-19,” said Canadore College President and CEO...