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The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution, dedicated to contributing to a future of better health care based on the unique genetic makeup of each individual. With more than 1,500 employees in Bar Harbor, Maine, Sacramento, California. and a new genomic medicine institute in Farmington, Connecticut., the Laboratory's mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jax.org/about/ )〕 The institution is a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and has NIH centers of excellence in aging and systems genetics. The Laboratory is also the world's source for more than 7,000 strains of genetically defined mice, is home of the mouse genome database and is an international hub for scientific courses, conferences, training and education. ==Major research areas== Jackson Laboratory research, represented by the activities of more than 40 laboratories, is largely sponsored by NIH grants and is focused in 15 major areas: * Aging * Behavioral Disorders * Bioinformatics * Cancer * Complex Traits * Computational Biology * Developmental Disorders * Diabetes and Obesity * Eye Research * Genetics and Genomics * Immune Disorders * Infectious Diseases * Neurodegenerative and Neuromuscular Diseases * Reproductive Disorders * Resource Development and Dissemination 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jackson Laboratory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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