BAR HARBOR — Jackson Laboratory is receiving more than $33 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health for projects that will help to speed disease research.
The Bar Harbor biomedical research center says the grant makes the laboratory a key participant in an international project to create one of the largest libraries of mammalian genetic function data.
Over the next five years, NIH-funded researchers at Jackson Lab will extensively test and generate data about mice with disrupted genes to gain clues about human diseases.
Jackson Professor and Research Chair Bob Braun says there’s an extremely high overlap between the mouse and human genomes, with 99 percent of the genes in common. Braun says the project will make clear the function of much of the human genome.
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