Human Genome Sciences (HGS) is about to change that, as the company announced on July 20 that its monoclonal antibody (mAb) drug Benlysta (belimumab, formerly LymphoStat-B) has met its primary ...

The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more ...

GlaxoSmithKline has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Human Genome Sciences (HGS), under which GSK will acquire HGS for US $14.25 per share in cash. The transaction values ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

For more basic information about genes, visit the Glossary. A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June 2000. Efforts are underway to complete a final draft of the human genome ...

and his growing fame and wealth resulting from his involvement in the founding of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), Human Genome Sciences and Celera. The rise of Francis Collins to ...

Marco Marra spent five years earning his PhD by studying DNA fragments of roundworms, fascinated by the notion that ...

Jian Ni spent more than a decade outside of China, earning his PhD at Cambridge University and joining Human Genome Sciences of Rockville, Md., when it was still a small company. He kept close tabs on ...

The genetic information in an organism is called its genome. The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short, was started at the end of the last century. It was very ambitious and had several aims ...

Danzig became a director of Human Genome Sciences in May 2001. Later that year the company began work on an anthrax antitoxin after the September 11 terrorist attacks and a spate of anthrax-laced ...

Researchers at Duke University and North Carolina State University have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that ...

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