Levy Lab
Shawn Levy, Ph.D. (read bio)
Faculty Investigator
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Research areas:
- RNA-seq informatics
- Pedigree and ancestry prediction from genomic data
- Improved analysis pipelines for large sample sets
- Automation of complex assays and high-efficiency service operations
- Epigenetics in early development
HudsonAlpha researchers demonstrate sporadic mutations may be responsible for half of schizophrenia cases
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Although it affects less than 1 percent of the global population, schizophrenia exacts a large toll in terms of expense and human suffering. A new study from researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, with colleagues from Columbia University in New York and the University of Pretoria in South Africa, indicate non-familial genetic mutations may account for about half of schizophrenia cases.
Budget cuts hit labs and equipment manufacturers
News Outlet:
Nature
Date published:
November 1, 2011 
A DNA sequencing machine is one of the most expensive lab purchases a biologist can make. So it is no surprise that, with research funding falling and worse times ahead, institutions are holding off buying the devices, leaving manufacturers feeling the pinch. After a round of gloomy third-quarter results, many makers of sequencing machines are now hoping that cost cutting and expansion into medical diagnostics will help them to prosper again.
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