POSTS TAGGED AS DNA sequencing

340 Genomes on a Thumb Drive

Swiss Army USB
Victorinox, maker of the Swiss Army Knife, recently introduced the first terabyte USB thumb drive.  It has [MORE]

Genomes’ “Intangible Variance”

This piece isn’t about the genetic variance of genomes between any two individuals, but rather the as-yet “intangible variance” [MORE]

BGI and CHOP Begin Pediatric Genomics Work

Last fall, the Beijing Genomics Institute and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced their “Joint Genome Center” for discovering [MORE]

She Donated Her Genome to Science

Known only as “W115,” a 115 year old woman-before her death she was the oldest known living person-had her [MORE]

Nanopore Chip for DNA Sequencing

Nanopore Chip
IBM may have pioneered nanopore technology, but other companies have advanced the field or found alternatives to faster [MORE]

Fox Chase’s Cancer Genome Institute

Life Technologies, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA)-formed from a 2008 merger of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems-has reached an agreement with [MORE]

Social Network Analysis for Epidemiology

Tracking Disease Transmission
Suppose an outbreak of a new antibiotic- resistant pathogen appeared in one place and then another, and [MORE]

Coming Closer to the $1,000 Genome

Ion Torrent Chip to Sequence DNA
In the race to realize “the $1,000 genome,” a small sequencing company, Ion Torrent [MORE]

Bringing DNA Sequencing to Routine Diagnostics

DNA sequencing (on microarrays) is competitive with contemporary biomarker-based PCR assays, on cost per assay target, sensitivity, specificity, assay protocol [MORE]

Achieving the Promise of Genomic Medicine

It has been 10 years since the publication of the first draft of the sequence of the human genome. This [MORE]

Illumina’s Distributed Genomics Network

This past summer, life sciences instrument maker Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA) announced its founding of a collaboration [MORE]

More Microfluidics for DNA Sequencing

RainDance Microfluidics
RainDance, Inc.is in a storied location to start a revolution: Lexington, MA.  The company is developing picoliter droplet-based [MORE]

BGI Getting Bigger

The Beijing Genomics Institute’s recent order of 126 DNA sequencers from Illumina, not only makes BGI the world’s largest [MORE]

Nano-Enabled DNA Sequencer

Stuart Lindsay PhD
The goal of a faster, less expensive sequencing-capable of reading an entire genome for $1,000–comes closer every [MORE]