The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) system has been widely used to mediate genome editing in a variety of organisms and cell lines 3. CRISPR/Cas9 protein–RNA ...

In Helicos Biosciences’ method, individual DNA strands extracted from cells are sequenced by iterative cycles of base addition. Credit: Helicos Biosciences The first human genome sequence cost more ...

What if you could put a few bacterial cells into a USB stick, plug it into your laptop, and get back a complete DNA sequence in a matter of minutes? Oxford Nanopore has built a USB device that will do ...

- Novel technology expected to greatly advance the burgeoning field of dynamic genomics - Wide range of possible translational and clinical applications, including virology and epigenetic biomarker ...

Even as species diverge, they retain some common genomic elements, perhaps none as stubbornly constant as ultraconserved elements (UCEs). UCEs tend to consist of fairly lengthy stretches of DNA, ...

Salk researchers uncovered a genetic mechanism that directs DNA methylation in Arabidopsis. Instead of relying solely on ...

Researchers in Egypt have developed a technique to compress DNA sequences of the kind used in medical research so that they take up a lot less space in a computer database but without loss of ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a coffee cup.

The building block of life is often heralded as the cornerstone of a new generation of electronic devices and computers, but the electronic properties of DNA remain highly controversial. 1 Back to ...

A team of experts in ancient DNA from McMaster University (Canada) and genome researchers from Penn State University (USA) have obtained the first genomic sequences from a woolly mammoth, a mammal ...