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 of ...
Companies like Ultima Genomics say they have the technology, which could lead to medical breakthroughs. But similar promises in the past have fizzled and barriers remain. By Roy Furchgott This article ...
Genetic sequencing company Illumina has unveiled a new machine it says can sequence the human genome for just $200, Wired reported Sept. 29. It currently costs roughly $600 to sequence an entire ...
The People Acting Now Discover Answers Core for Genomics and Microbiome Research at the University of Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center is using its new best-in-class genome sequencing machine ...
As public health officials around the world contend with the latest surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at Drexel University have created a computer model that could help them be better ...
Omicron now accounts for about 95 percent of COVID cases in the United States, according to the CDC. How do doctors and scientists know which variant people have, though? At Mayo Clinic in ...
Sequencing an entirely complete human genome has been the work of decades. Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project (HGP) declared their work finished, with an asterisk. Even a decade later, fully ...
In what some scientists are describing as the most sweeping innovation in gene sequencing in the past 25 years, researchers have developed a tool that can read out DNA’s genetic letters up to 100 ...