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

DNA sequencing refers to the process of identifying the order of bases in a strand of DNA. DNA is comprised of nucleotides, with each nucleotide consisting of a sugar, a phosphate group and a base.

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

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 ...

A team reports achieving real-time single molecule electronic DNA sequencing at single-base resolution using a protein nanopore array. The work sets the stage for revolutionary, cost-effective genetic ...

In a recent study published in Nature Biotechnology, researchers developed a whole-genome sequencing (WGS) method that read four canonical deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) bases, viz., adenine (A), ...

It’s time to turn to sequencing the epigenome, the DNA modifications that alter gene expression and determine our individual genetic identity. DNA molecule with methylation on the center cytosine ...

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, ...

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 ...