The Human Genome Project was a 13-year-long, publicly funded project initiated in 1990 with the objective of determining the DNA sequence of the entire euchromatic human genome within 15 years. In ...

The first bacterial genome sequence was published 20 years ago. In this Timeline, Loman and Pallen review the first two decades of bacterial genome sequencing, discussing how advances in ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

It took almost twice as long to finish the last 8% of the human genome as it did to sequence the first 92%. New laboratory and computational technologies finally enabled genomic researchers to ...

Genome sequencing is a lot easier and cheaper now than it used to be. Viral genomes are also easier to sequence than a human genome because of their small size. Here are the primary steps: ...

Upstart sequencing company Ultima Genomics told STAT it will soon launch a line of instruments that can read a human genome for as little as $100.

Next generation sequencing (NGS), often referred to as massively parallel sequencing or deep sequencing, refers to a DNA sequencing technology that enables sequencing of millions of small DNA ...

The human genome is made of more than 6 billion letters, and each person has a unique configuration of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts—the molecular building blocks that make up DNA. Determining the sequence ...

A U.K. program—similar to one launched in New York last fall— will begin genome sequencing on 100,000 babies this year to figure out whether screening newborns for a wide range of conditions ...

Despite the plummeting costs of genome sequencing, there would probably be financial concerns about adopting the $1,000 test as policy for North Carolina, which records about 120,000 births per year.