LifeOmic issued what the company officials are calling a “first-of-its kind” guarantee to protect customer data, the Indianapolis-based precision medicine company announced Nov. 28. LifeOmic offers ...

DNA sequencing company Illumina and Nashville Biosciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, are working with biopharmaceutical company Amgen to ...

I think it's amusing when scientific lingo finds its way into popular speech, because it is often distorted in interesting ways. When political commentators talk about a "litmus test" they're not ...

The newest DNA sequencing technology from Swiss multinational Roche doesn’t measure DNA directly but in fact analyzes a different polymer altogether. The technology is not yet available for sale, but ...

DNA methylation is a highly studied epigenetic modification that regulates genome function and plays key roles in development and disease 1. It is linked to a broad range of conditions, including ...

Companies unite in shared vision of enabling researchers to translate genomic insights to groundbreaking discoveries Partnership includes launch of new IDT xGen™ NGS products designed exclusively for ...

CHICAGO, May 13 (Reuters) - Until recently, whole genome sequencing - technology that allows researchers to map all of an individual's 20,500 genes - was prohibitively expensive, costing about $20,000 ...

Students take samples of water and the microscopic creatures within at the Alviso Marina County Park. (Image by Erika Cardema) At the Alviso Marina County Park, reddish-brown water laps at the edge of ...

PacBio has announced plans to enhance its methylation detection capabilities in HiFi sequencing by licensing advanced methods from Professor Dennis Lo and his team at The Chinese University of Hong ...

J. Craig Venter, PhD, left, President Bill Clinton, and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, The White House, June 26, 2000. [Mark Wilson/Newsmakers/Getty Images] The announcement of the first draft of the ...