General Discussion

undergroundpanther

(11,925 posts) Fri Aug 2, 2013, 02:25 AM Aug 2013

artificial human chromosomes...

DARPA Solicitaion Opened 7/26/2013

Objective
Improve the utility of Human Artificial Chromosomes (HACs) by developing new selectable metabolic markers for use in human cells, new high-fidelity methods for inserting DNA constructs of at least 50,000 base pairs (bp) in length into defined genomic loci, and new methodologies for facile intercellular genome transplantation.

http://sbirsource.com/grantiq#/topics/88854

2 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

artificial human chromosomes... (Original Post) undergroundpanther Aug 2013 OP

DARPA?????!!!! HiPointDem Aug 2013 #1

Yes - DARPA. momto3 Aug 2013 #2

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)

1. DARPA?????!!!!

Reply to undergroundpanther (Original post)

Fri Aug 2, 2013, 03:19 AM

Aug 2013

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military

momto3

(662 posts)

2. Yes - DARPA.

Reply to HiPointDem (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 2, 2013, 04:11 AM

Aug 2013

With current NIH and NSF paylines being so low, the only funding available for highly innovative, and potentially risky (meaning some chance of failure), is through DARPA and other funds from the DoD. Approximately 5-10% of NIH grants for academic research are being funded. Therefore, only grants with an almost assured success can get funded. Therefore researchers, such as myself, rely on money from any source possible.

Reply to this discussion