New NIH/NHGRI grants to harness nanoscale technologies to cut DNA sequencing costs
September 27th, 2012
Grants of almost $19 million will help to develop technologies to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today.
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