Home is Where the Opportunity Is
Like many young adults, Catherine “Cassie” Hajek swore she would never move back home to South Dakota when she left for the big city after high school.
Sanford Health Collaborates with Florida Hospital on Gene Sequencing Project
Sanford Health and Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami have unveiled plans to sequence the genes of nearly 1,000 Latino and Hispanic people as part of the Nicklaus Children’s Personalized Medicine Initiative.
First Twin Register Launches in South Dakota
Avera and the Avera Institute for Human Genetics have established the first and only twin register in South Dakota. The new register will enable the AIHG to collect and analyze DNA from twins throughout the Midwest to provide insight into traits and diseases that are specific to the region.
Imagining the Future of Medicine: Sanford Imagentics
Even before biochemists Frederick Sanger and Walter Gilbert shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their separate work in DNA sequencing, medical scientists understood that the ability to create and analyze chromosomal representations would revolutionize the way medicine was practiced. After all, as the National Human Genome Research Institute states, “Virtually every human ailment, except perhaps trauma, has some basis in our genes.”