POSTS TAGGED AS DNA

Metabolgenomics

Metabolic syndrome-that dangerous mix of hypertension, elevated cholesterol and Type 2 diabetes-is both biologically complex and rising in incidence as [MORE]

“Special Pricing for First Time Customers:” The $5,000 Genome

It wasn’t too long ago that Knome was offering to sequence an entire human genome for about the [MORE]

Locating Genetic Testing Labs and Clinics

This listing, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, identifies 1,172 clinics, 600 laboratories, and 2,430 diseases, searchable by [MORE]

The African-American Genome

Slavery created a selection pressure that favored for survival those individuals who retained water in their blood, since dehydration [MORE]

Semi-Conductor Based Sequencing

Earlier this year, Tagline carried a story about “desktop sequencing” based on Ion Torrent’s semi-conductor approach which detects DNA [MORE]

Personal Genome Machine

Recently, Ion Torrent (Guilford, CT, a branch of Life Technologies-formerly Applied Biosciences) named Ambry Genetics (Aliso Viego, CA) as [MORE]

Insight on DNA Repair

Near the end of chromosome 9’s long arm, the SET oncogene plays several roles in cellular function, including apoptosis, [MORE]

Screening by Sequencing

In January, Stephen Kingsmore, chief scientific officer for the National Human Genome Research Institute, reported that he and his [MORE]

Printing Nanostructures in Desktop Fabrication

Using a technology described as “hard tip pens that float on soft polymer springs,” researchers at Northwestern University [MORE]

Synthetic Macromolecules

“. . . the molecular parts kit for life need not be limited to parts likes genes and proteins [MORE]

Mother’s Blood Biomarkers for Fetal Genomics

It’s an astonishing discovery-a fetus’s entire genome is present in the mother’s blood.  Small fragments of fetal DNA in [MORE]

Waves that Unzip

Boian Alexandrov and colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have made a stunning observation-terahertz waves, which are not [MORE]

Human Susceptibility to Staph

It’s a reasonable thought that if a single base mutation in the DNA code for hemoglobin can result in [MORE]

Genomic Unknowns

Thoroughbred race horse breeders have long observed what they call the “grand sire” effect-where the immediate offspring of a [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]

DNA Synthesis-Benchtop Automation?

To read this interview with Daniel Gibson, a molecular biologist with the J. Craig Venter Institute (Rockville, MD and San [MORE]

DNA Sequencing Via Microfluidics

David Weitz and physicist colleagues at Harvard have done preliminary work that shows DNA can be sequenced using a [MORE]

A Really Smart Biosensor Chip

Protein scientists in Germany and Japan have developed a new biochip that can detect proteins for specific diseases and [MORE]

DNA Nanobots

Several labs have developed two dimensional and three dimensional structures out of DNA, but recently research groups in New [MORE]

Tracking Personalized Biomarkers

Residual cancer, after surgery, leaves biomakers in the blood-both protein and DNA.  Protein markers tend to be less specific [MORE]