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Biomedicine
Gift to Technology Boosts Power for Gene Discovery
August 27th, 2007
Recent philanthropic gifts to Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research are “ramping up” the power of the organization’s already world-renowned genetic research resources. The donor-funded enhancements should dramatically accelerate the speed with which SFBR researchers can hunt for genes that influence our susceptibility to complex human diseases as varied as heart disease, diabetes, brain disorders and cancer. A $1 million gift from the AT&T Foundation, the charitable philanthropy organization of AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T), will allow SFBR’s AT&T Genomics Computing Center to double the power and speed of its “computer ranch,” the world’s largest...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2007-08-27)
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