It’s a story UC Santa Cruz Research Professor David Deamer has told many times before: in 1989, while driving along a forested road in Oregon on his way to visit family, an idea struck him. Like many ...

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 ...

Advances in DNA sequencing have enabled logarithmic growth of data points and breadth in coverage of an individual genome. High-throughput sequencing holds great promise for population-wide analysis ...

When a critically ill 3-month-old infant entered a Stanford hospital with unexplained seizures, physicians were mystified by the young patient’s illness. The infant displayed many signs of epilepsy, ...

The Human Genome Project was an international scientific research project set out to map, identify, and sequence all the genes that make up the human genome, as well as improve the tools for data ...

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 ...

DNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized research and the products resulting from R&D in any number of industries over the past couple of decades. Starting with Sanger sequencing, knowledge ...

Element Biosciences hasn’t even launched its first benchtop DNA sequencing platform yet, but that hasn’t stopped it from raising hundreds of millions of dollars and, now, using that funding to acquire ...

Sequencing newborn DNA not only revealed the risk of future disease, but in some cases uncovered hidden conditions that were already present. For example, in one of the healthy newborns enrolled in ...