HALLE, GERMANY – AUGUST 14: A technician holds vials containing engineered DNA that will be introduced into the leaves of nicotiana benthamiana plants, which are a close relative of tobacco, in a lab at the facilities of Icon Genetics on August 14, 2014 in Halle, Germany. Icon Genetics has developed a process to produce proteins and enzymes via the nicotiana benthamiana plant that will be used in the production of antibodies for ZMapp, which is being heralded as a possible cure to the ebola virus. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
The federal government has awarded about $2.8 million to a Maine science lab for projects that will focus on genetics.
The National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health have awarded the money to The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor. The biggest piece of the money is a more than $1.2 million award for a project designed to develop clinical tests for identifying patients with genetic mechanisms of infertility.
That piece of the grant will also support educational activities that will create new evolutionary genomics education and research opportunities in Maine.
