News

  • Jul 2014

    Integrated Disease Registry and Repository Available through Coriell Institute, NIGMS, and PatientCrossroads

    Patient advocacy organizations and research investigators can now take advantage of a new integrated registry and repository resource to further advance rare disease research. Blood or tissue samples donated to the NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research can be linked to de‐identified clinical data in patient registries built by PatientCrossroads. The samples and corresponding clinical information are then made available to the international scientific community for use in basic research, gene discovery and the development of potential treatments.

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  • Jun 2014

    Mouse ES Cells Now Available

    The Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Collection, consisting of 139 cell lines, has been created by a researcher in the NIA Intramural Research Program, Dr. Minoru S.H. Ko, as part of a project to induce transcription factors and study their effects on core transcriptional regulatory networks.

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