Next-generation DNA sequencing has started a revolution ... data faster and at lower cost than presently available sequencing methods. Steven Block of Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, USA ...

Genetic sequencing has gone through several advances. A major breakthrough came when scientists began breaking the billions ...

Automation has increased the speed of DNA sequencing by established methods by several orders of magnitude. Now, commercial and academic efforts to develop alternative sequencing technologies are ...

Next-generation sequencing technologies, introduced in the mid-2000s, revolutionized the field of genomics by enabling high-throughput, parallelized sequencing of DNA. NGS methods typically involve ...

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces -- short reads. Scientists found ...

Long-read, single-molecule DNA sequencing is a foundational method in genomics research, with applications including identifying complex structural variants and analyzing whole chromosomes. However, ...

Within a few days of being born, more than 300,000 Australian babies a year have a spot of their blood analysed to screen for a range of serious ...

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces—short reads. Christian Gilissen, ...

Discover how a groundbreaking blood test using advanced DNA sequencing techniques is set to revolutionize early cancer ...