A new low cost semiconductor-based gene sequencing is coming and may unlock the door to advanced medicines and life itself. iON A new, low cost semiconductor-based gene sequencing machine has been ...

Senior scientist Claude Murat looks at DNA fingerprints of truffles at the INRA (French National Agronomical Research Institute) laboratory in Champenoux near Nancy. Reuters DNA sequencing equipment ...

Image: Nik Matthews, Genomics Manager in the ICR's Tumour Profiling Unit with the NovaSeq sequencer. 1. To the general public, why is the NovaSeq technology exciting? The genomics explosion is ...

Imec has developed a software tool to speed up human DNA sequencing analysis called elPrep which accelerates whole genome and exome processing pipelines up to an order of magnitude, saving a typical ...

Long-read sequencing technologies analyse long, continuous stretches of DNA. These methods have the potential to improve researchers’ ability to detect complex genetic alterations in cancer genomes.

Machines have been made from DNA which are capable of three key things needed to be considered 'alive'. Scientists on the project say the 'lifelike' materials are capable of metabolism, assembly and ...