Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the World Health Organization estimates it could surpass cancer and heart disease ...

What may be the first commercially available book saved in DNA is the latest example of how consumers might use molecular ...

New research adds to our understanding of the function of the human genome. An international team of researchers has made ...

Cancer is a disease of the genome, according to Dr. Elli Papaemmanuil, computational oncologist at MSK. By looking at the ...

The Human Genome project set out to sequence all of the 3 billion nucleotides in the human genome. Exactly how was this daunting task done with such incredible speed and accuracy? In 1986, a ...

As the different-sized DNA fragments pass through the tube, a sequencing machine reads the fluorescent label at each position. Sequencing machines have vastly increased the speed and efficiency of ...

On Tuesday, researchers from firmware security firm Eclypsium called out one of them: the Illumina iSeq 100, a DNA sequencer that's a staple at 23andMe and thousands of other gene-sequencing ...

Improvements in methodology have dramatically dropped the cost of DNA sequencing in the last decade ... and armed with an X-Ray machine and suitable optical microscope, he eventually figured ...

Genetic changes have the ability to alter crop characteristics, and some crop breeding techniques take advantage of this.

One to twenty-four samples can be processed in a single run to isolate free-circulating DNA from fetal-originated DNA in ...