By Abhishyant Kidangoor Tyler Kartzinel likens protecting biodiversity to enhancing cellphone networks. His analogy is pretty ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.

Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS)—the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking, and gene research—could ...

The U.S. government is sounding the alarm over a 10/10 severity-rated security flaw that could compromise patients’ sensitive medical data.

The class has recently been redesigned to give students experience with the entire process of DNA sequencing, from sampling to data analysis, using the latest nanopore devices from Oxford Nanopore ...

Sequencing a person can be particularly challenging because it has implications for others, said University of Michigan's Dr. Steven Katz, an expert in treatment decisions made between patients ...

DNA has tremendous potential as a data storage medium, but the process of synthesizing DNA from scratch is time-consuming. It has to be done one nucleotide at a time in a specific sequence.

Additionally, companies involved in the sequencing, data transfer, and/or storage of newborn DNA sequencing data must also agree not to voluntarily allow police access to this data. With researchers ...

“Every cell in our bodies has the same genome sequence, but genetic programming comes from modifications to DNA. If life can do this, we can do this,” she says.

This might include sequencing the DNA of every baby born. It’s early days and we don’t yet know what an updated screening program might look like. But in a few months, we’ll ask Australians ...