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The New York Genome Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit academic research institution in New York, New York. [17] Since its inception, the center has raised over $500 million to support its genomic research, including federal and private grants and philanthropy.
1211 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the News Corp. Building, is an International Style skyscraper on Sixth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Formerly called the Celanese Building , it was completed in 1973 as part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s–1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings" .
NCBI provides the Gene database, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, the Molecular Modeling Database (3D protein structures), dbSNP (a database of single-nucleotide polymorphisms), the Reference Sequence Collection, a map of the human genome, and a taxonomy browser, and coordinates with the National Cancer Institute to provide the Cancer ...
Ophelia DeVore (August 12, 1921 – February 28, 2014) was an American businesswoman, publisher, and model. [1] She was the first model of African-American descent in the United States. In 1946, she helped establish the Grace Del Marco Agency, one of the first modeling agencies in America. [2]
GENCODE is a scientific project in genome research and part of the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) scale-up project.. The GENCODE consortium was initially formed as part of the pilot phase of the ENCODE project to identify and map all protein-coding genes within the ENCODE regions (approx. 1% of Human genome). [2]
Ford joined her parents' company in 1980. She took over as head in 1995 and moved operations from the Upper East Side to SoHo.She also expanded the company's reach by setting up offices in 10 other cities, including Chicago, Cleveland, Paris, and in Brazil and Argentina.
In 2010, BGI bought 128 Illumina HiSeq 2000 gene-sequencing machines, [3] [17] which was backed by US$1.5 billion in "collaborative funds" over the next 10 years from the state lender China Development Bank. [5] [23] [24] By the end of the year, they reportedly had a budget of $30 million. [25]
Gerard William "Jerry" Ford (October 2, 1924 – August 24, 2008) was an American businessman who in 1946 founded Ford Modeling Agency with his wife Eileen Ford in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [1]