Bridging Biobanking and Biomedical Research Across Europe and Africa
The first B3Africa Technical Jamboree was held on 3-6 May at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) of the University of the Western Cape. More information and pictures.
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For the second issue of its newsletter, the project presents interviews and feedback from participants to the B3Africa Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) workshop (The Gambia, 11-13 April 2016).
Continue reading »The NIH has recently released seven (7) Notices of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcements for the second stage of H3Africa. For each of […]
Continue reading »Bioinformatics based research glue multidisciplinary teams as demonstrated in the study led by members of the SLU-Bioinformatics Centre, Uppsala, Sweden. The work clearly shows that discoveries at the genome level in one species can be translated to another using biobank material; in this case from dog samples to human material. http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006000
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