“Solid-state nanopores are compatible with wafer-scale manufacturing processes and therefore offer a significant advantage ...

Harvard University researchers at the Broad Institute report that expansion in situ genome sequencing (ExIGS) linked nuclear ...

DNA sequencing is a laboratory method used to determine the sequence of a DNA molecule. The method was developed by Frederick Sanger in 1975, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in ...

Ultima Genomics, an upstart some observers have called a “dark horse” in the world of DNA sequencing, will soon launch a line of high-power instruments that can read a human genome for as ...

With bobbing shorebirds as company, a group of UC Santa Cruz undergraduate students collect water samples from this dynamic but understudied environment, to bring them back to campus and identify the ...

Many life-saving drugs directly interact with DNA to treat diseases such as cancer, but scientists have struggled to detect how and why they work—until now. In a paper published in the journal ...

An advanced diagnostic test uses genetic sequencing to detect a variety of ... find diagnoses for medical mysteries by analyzing DNA and RNA to detect a broad swath of viruses, bacteria, fungi ...

According to new research next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) -- the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking ...

The gold standard technology that scientists use to detect DNA methylation is bisulfite genomic sequencing. It is a qualitative, quantitative, and efficient approach to identify methylated cytosine at ...

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and conduct a one-day public workshop to examine the utilization of DNA sequencing as a supplement ...

A thousand kilometers south of Tokyo, far into the largest ocean on Earth, lies a chain of small, volcanic islands—the Ogasawara Islands. Nature has been able to develop on its own terms here ...