The funds will help the San Diego biotech commercialize its new benchtop gene-sequencing device and its other genomic ...

Samsung invests $175M in Element Biosciences, supporting innovation and expansion of its cutting-edge gene-sequencing ...

Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical evidence. Similarly, genome sequencing has changed how disease detectives study ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

With a new generation of fast and affordable gene sequencers, researchers are better equipped than ever to tackle Earth’s most pressing ecological challenges Sometimes, when the wind blows in the ...

When a baby is born, their blood is tested for serious, treatable diseases such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis. But if you could screen your healthy baby for hundreds more rare genetic ...

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an international team of collaborators used a genetic sequencing technique called whole exome sequencing to discover a new rare ...