Traditional bisulfite sequencing damages DNA, while enzyme-based alternatives are inconsistent. A novel methylation analysis ...

This image compares three DNA sequencing technologies: Sanger sequencing, Massively Parallel DNA sequencing, and Nanopore DNA sequencing. Sanger sequencing (left) sequences 500-700 bases per reaction ...

Researchers at California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, Stockholm University and Uppsala University are working on a smartphone-based microscope in hopes of developing a cost-effective and accessible ...

According to a new British documentary, analysis of Hitler's DNA proves a rare sexual disorder and high risk of mental ...

Roche has put forward a new approach to genetic analysis, which it describes as sequencing-by-expansion—a proprietary method that pulls apart the DNA molecule and amplifies the signal of each ...

DNA methylation is a critical epigenetic mechanism in numerous biological processes, including gene regulation, development, ageing and the onset of various diseases such as cancer. Studies of ...

DNA and RNA sequencing, biomarker identification, and targeted therapies began being offered to cancer patients in the late ...

Four rounds of DNA sequencing were compared with Y-chromosome samples from verified living relatives obtained by journalist Jean-Paul Mulders. Geneticist Dr. Turi King, known for identifying the ...

Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...

According to a new British documentary, analysis of Hitler's DNA proves a rare sexual disorder and high risk of mental ...