The McDonnell Genome Institute, researchers at WashUMed, and Fluidigm have developed an extraction-free saliva-based test to detect the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus. It has an easy-to-administer protocol that does not require collection via a nasopharyngeal swab. “Rapid, reliable...
The McDonnell Genome Institute (MGI) at Washington University School of Medicine and its institutional partners recently got $29.5 million in NIH funding for two new genome sequencing centers that allow scientists to generate and maintain the most comprehensive...
Jeff Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., James S. McDonnell Professor and head of the Department of Genetics, is helping usher in a new era at the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Milbrandt, who was recently appointed executive...
