The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded five contracts to different organizations to develop approaches to identify changes in individual's genomes that would indicate their exposure to weapons of mass destruction. The contractors and their award amounts are: Arizona State Univ., $9.1 million; Battelle Memorial Institute, $565,000; Duke Univ., $4.5 million; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, $27.1 million; and The Salk Institute, $4.8 million. The contracts are the base funding levels for the first phase of…
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