A new study shows that long-read sequencing has the potential to improve the rate of diagnosis while reducing the time to diagnosis from years to days -- in a single test and at a much lower cost.

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

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...

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In recent years, DNA sequencing technology has advanced many areas of science. For example, the field of functional genomics is concerned with figuring out what certain DNA sequences do ...

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environmental science and so on. It also earned its inventor, Kary B. Mullis, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993. Before PCR, the process of DNA sequencing was very lengthy and quite expensive.

Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots. Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances, ...

MIT chemists found a new way to determine 3D genome structures, using generative AI, that can predict thousands of genome structures in minutes, making it much speedier than existing methods for ...

Dr. Aaron Wenger tells us about SPRQ chemistry, highlighting its unique benefits and role in expanding our understanding of ...

On January 21st, the Thalassemia International Federation (TIF) and BGI Genomics jointly hosted an educational webinar focused on thalassemia prevention in high-prevalence regions. Experts emphasized ...