Nanopore sequencing allows researchers to read the chemical letters of DNA like an announcer would read a ticker tape. This makes fast, cheap genetic-based diagnostics possible.

Bringing ultra-rapid DNA sequencing to these countries will involve investing in regional efforts to support genomic research. For example, the Human Heredity & Health in Africa Initiative invests in ...

Rapid DNA sequencing may soon become a routine part of each individual's medical record, providing enormous information previously sequestered in the human genome's 3 billion nucleotide bases.

Unlike other sequencing technologies that rely on indirect measures of polymerase activity, this approach achieves direct, real-time observation of a DNA polymerase enzyme incorporating nucleotides.

For DNA sequencing to become a routine part of patient care, it needs to become cheaper and faster. A company called Oxford Nanopore hopes to bring down both the cost and the time required for ...

Sequencing DNA with nanopores offers exciting potential advantages over other sequencing technologies, but thus far the reading of the bases from a DNA molecule in a nanopore has been hampered by ...

Sequencing DNA is very, very simple: there's a molecule, you look at it, you write down what you find. ... so-called "direct" reading of a DNA molecule without the need for messy, ...

It's rare for a month to go by without some aspect of DNA sequencing making the headlines. Species after species has seen its genome completed, and the human genome, whether it's from healthy ...

“A desktop DNA printer will allow you to build any gene, any time, and anywhere, so you can be your own DNA source and collaborate globally,” envisions the CEO.

They randomly sequence millions of those circulating DNA fragments, often only 50 to 500 DNA letters long. Then, using a computer program, they line up the sequences against a map of human ...