We tend to think of our genes as something we’re simply stuck with. You inherit a certain set from your parents, and that’s the hand you’re dealt. But having a gene isn’t always the same thing as ...

Google has now used this system to evaluate all possible single-base changes in the human genome. In other words, if the ...

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via IVF and embryo screening,” she said at the ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

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 is involved in regulating genome function and plays fundamental roles in development and disease. 1 It is linked to a broad range of ...

In a single experiment, scientists can decipher the entire genomes of many patient samples, animal models or cultured cells. To fully realize the potential to study biology at this unprecedented scale ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London, the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and Genomics England have ...

Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical evidence. Similarly, genome sequencing has changed how disease detectives study ...

For most of the history of forensic DNA testing, identical twins presented police and courts with a problem that seemed ...