Jackson Lab scores $3.2M federal research grant
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Construction on Jackson Laboratory's 189,000 square-foot research facility is scheduled to be completed by 2014.
A research collaboration between the Maine-based Jackson Laboratory and the University of Connecticut to study bone diseases like osteoporosis has won a $3.2 million federal grant .
The Hartford Courant reported the grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases will help explore how the absence of specific genes in mice impacts bone growth and development.
That project is one of the first in a series of collaborations between the two research facilities. The mice for the experiment will be bred at the Jackson Lab’s Bar Harbor headquarters and samples from those mice will be sent to researchers at the University of Connecticut’s Farmington campus.
The Maine-based lab is also working on on a $1.1 billion personalized medicine laboratory at the Farmington, Conn., campus, as part of the Bioscience Connecticut project. That laboratory is set to open in 2014.
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