IGS Researchers Participate in Landmark Study

IGS Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) co-authored a study that details the sequencing...

Current News

September 2021

UM SOM - IGS Researchers Work to Understand Hearing Loss from Noise Damage through Gene Expression Changes

Findings suggest several FDA-approved drugs, such as a common diabetes medication and anesthetics, could protect from noise-related hearing loss.....

September 2021

IGS Receives $7.5 Million Grant to Create Complex Model of Female Reproductive Tract to Study Infections

Research Will Help Identify Mechanisms by Which the Microbiome Affects the Susceptibility to Sexually Transmitted Infections

September 2021

Probiotic-Containing Yogurt Protects Against Microbiome Changes That Lead to Antibiotic-Induced Diarrhea, Study Finds

Eating yogurt containing a particular strain of a well-studied probiotic appears to protect against harmful changes in the gut microbiome....

Recent Publications

Strains used in whole organism Plasmodium falciparum vaccine trials differ in genome structure, sequence, and immunogenic potential., Genome medicine 2020-01-08
Aberrantly High Levels of Somatic LINE-1 Expression and Retrotransposition in Human Neurological Disorders., Frontiers in genetics 2020-01-08
Icariin Mitigates the Growth and Invasion Ability of Human Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma via Inhibiting Toll-Like Receptor 4 and Phosphorylation of NF-κB P65., OncoTargets and therapy 2020-01-10

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Frontiers in Genomics
IGS celebrates its 10th Anniversary.

Introduction to Bioinformatics
What is Bioinformatics? How does it interface with high throughput sequencing?

UM Schools Study STDs
UM Schools of Dentistry and Medicine to study the causes, prevention and treatment of STDs.

Bioinformatics Work Projects
An overview of computational biology and bioinformatics projects at the Institute for Genome Sciences.

Dr. Claire Fraser
The Business of Research: Genomics and Biomedicine.

E. coli Research
E. coli outbreak in Germany