The Scientist

Optimizing Illumina Long-Read Whole Genome Sequencing of Salivary DNA Using Oragene™ Collection Devices

Researchers are now exploring how to best extract and use saliva-derived DNA for long-read sequencing applications. Download ...
news.ucsc

Genome researchers publish analysis of finished human genome sequence, plan next steps to figure out what it all means

A pair of papers published this week in the two leading scientific journals mark the completion of the Human Genome Project and the start of a new project to find all of the functional elements in ...

Researchers expand human genome map to 2.37 million regulatory DNA elements

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...
Nature

Milestones in Genomic Sequencing

Since its development in the late 1970s, DNA sequencing has become one of the most influential tools in biomedical research, with technologies evolving continuously and new applications emerging over ...

First-time use of AI for genetic circuit design demonstrated in a human cell line

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...
UUHC Health Feed

Parts of Our DNA May Evolve Much Faster than Previously Thought

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...
ucdavis.edu

Finding Human Brain Genes in Duplicated DNA

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...