In just a few decades, DNA sequencing technologies evolved from slow, manual processes to rapid, automated ones, making ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

Dante Labs enabled more than 100 global scientific studies on rare diseases, transcriptomics, CRISPR gene editing ancient DNA ...

Newborn babies admitted to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) rely on the quick decisions and rapid action of the medical team responsible for them. DNA testing is critical to ...

DNA methylation is a critical epigenetic mechanism in numerous biological processes, including gene regulation, development, ageing and the onset of various diseases such as cancer. Studies of ...

Samsung invests $175M in Element Biosciences, supporting innovation and expansion of its cutting-edge gene-sequencing ...

A pioneering partnership between researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has produced a novel nanopore sensing platform for ...

Here, Aaron Wenger, Principal Scientist – Bioinformatics at PacBio (CA, USA), explores how advances in accuracy, throughput and cost are making long-read sequencing more accessible at scale. Advances ...