The new technique is called CLASSIC, an acronym for “combining long and short range sequencing to investigate genetic ...

An analysis of genetic data from over 900,000 people shows that certain stretches of DNA, made up of short sequences repeated ...

Zettabytes—that’s 10 21 bytes—of data are currently generated every year. All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is ...

According to new research next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) -- the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking, and ...

A streamlined, automated process helps scientists coordinate site-ready production-level whole genome sequencing results.

Beachy Head woman grew up locally in Roman Britain, according to new genetic and chemical analysis of a 2,000-year-old ...

Newborn babies admitted to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) rely on the quick decisions and rapid action of the medical team responsible for them. DNA testing is critical to ...

Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding ...

India's hospital chains, diagnostics networks, and global investors have poured millions of dollars into gene sequencing, bioinformatics and population-scale genomic capacity to bring DNA testing to ...

Through genomic sequencing and analysis, clinicians can identify specific mutations present in a patient’s cancer cells and deliver personalized treatment based on the genetic information. Increased ...