Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

Abstract: Recent advancements in electrochemical detection have created significant opportunities in biosensing, particularly in medical diagnostics and health monitoring, where real-time response, ...

A man with neurofibromas who didn't know he's been clinically diagnosed with NF1, learns he harbors a deeply intronic, likely ...

Marketing geniuses at Liquid Death, a brand of canned water, had rocker Ozzy Osbourne autograph and drink 10 cans of their iced tea. The empty cans, which are purported to contain trace amounts of DNA ...

Boston Children's Hospital, along with Broad Clinical Labs and Roche Sequencing Solutions, has demonstrated that rapid genomic sequencing and interpretation are achievable in a matter of hours. This ...

TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah & HOUSTON & FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history and DNA testing, announced today a landmark move to Whole Genome ...

MyHeritage becomes the first major DNA testing company to fully adopt Whole Genome Sequencing; the upgrade leverages technology by Ultima Genomics and processing at the Gene by Gene lab MyHeritage, ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

Whole Genome Sequencing reads almost the entire human genetic code, covering around 3 billion base pairs (nucleotides). This is superior to the standard genotyping arrays used by most consumer DNA ...