Whole genome sequencing can be an exceptionally valuable tool in cancer diagnostics. The application of this technique can ...

Thousands of single changes in the nucleotides that make up the human genome have been associated with an increased risk of ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed ...

A NGS analysis framework for WGS data, which automates the entire process of spinning up AWS EC2 spot instances and processing FASTQ to snvVCF in <60m, for dollars a sample and achieving Fscores of ...

Shotgun sequencing and metagenomics can now be used ... of critical global importance both to unlock the potential of the ocean genome and to understand and predict the effects of human-induced ...

have announced they will be working jointly in an agreement that will help advance the genome-sequencing of Covid-19 project, through techniques under development in Uruguay, using British ...

A report published by the government’s Science and Technology Committee, Genomics and Genome Editing in the NHS, warns that the 100,000 Genomes Project – which has helped to establish the UK ...

RNA sequencing refers to techniques used to determine the sequence of RNA molecules. It includes high-throughput shotgun sequencing ... immune cells across the human lifespan.

"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Jan ...