Advances in sequencing technologies have accelerated the discovery of the genetic causation of diseases and new cell types. This revolution has also given rise to a new technique known as genetic ...

DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, from tiny frogs to large mammals.

Reliable technique should improve clinical trials, nutrition studies and historical research DURHAM, N.C. – What people say they’ve eaten and what they’ve actually eaten are often two very different ...

With the ability to map dozens of biomarkers at once, a new method could transform testing for conditions including heart disease and cancer. With the ability to map dozens of biomarkers at once, a ...

Gene therapy and engineering is a promising area of research for the treatment of various genetic diseases. Therapy involves manipulating stem cells and transplanting them into recipients allowing the ...

The Netherlands has launched an ambitious national program to map and barcode every known plant, animal, and fungal species in the country, aiming to create one of the most comprehensive DNA libraries ...

The Earth is an almost unimaginably diverse planet in terms of species. Researchers have identified between two and three million species, but there are many more that we know nothing about. The ...

Barcoding technologies that take advantage of the high information content that can be encoded in oligonucleotide sequences have enabled a wide array of applications in biotechnology, particularly ...

In the mid-1990s, Hiroyuki Nakai, now an adeno-associated virus (AAV) researcher at the Oregon Health and Science University, moved to the United States. Nakai quickly became fascinated with the ...