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UW scientists receive $1 million grant to study genome production

Four UW-Madison professors will receive a $1 million dollar grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study genome production, according to a release from the university Wednesday. Aseem Ansari, Jennifer Reed, Parmesh Ramanathan and David Schwartz will lead the research into more efficient and less expensive ways to produce genomes, which contain the biological information about an organism encoded as DNA.