New funding for the Human Developmental Biology Resource17 December 2007 |
The Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council have approved new funding for the Human Developmental Biology Resource.
The Human Developmental Biology Resource (HDBR) collects, stores and distributes human embryonic and fetal tissue for research, and is used by developmental biologists, geneticists and pathologists around the UK and overseas. The new funding – for five years – will support the HDBR's core activities at the Institute of Child Health, London, and the Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle upon Tyne; it will allow the Resource to carry out gene expression studies on human embryonic or fetal material for researchers.
The data from these in situ hybridisation experiments are stored centrally and are made publicly available 12 months after being sent to the commissioning researcher.