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Hand-Held DNA Sequencer Widely Adopted

MinION Sequencer
Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Oxford Science Park, UK) has had threats of patent infringement against its MinION, after which the [MORE]

Genetic “Fingerprint” of Prostate Cancer

DNA
About a third of men who are successfully treated (surgery and radiation) for localized prostate cancer still go on to [MORE]

Advantages of Hand-Held Nanopore Sequencers

MinION Setup
We’re seeing more and increasingly favorable reports about Oxford Nanopore’s “MinION” hand-held DNA sequencer. This piece says: “As a [MORE]

Finding Small Chromosome Abnormalities with DNA Sequencing

DNA Sequencing
In July 2012, researchers at Stanford University announced that they had sequenced the entire genome of a fetus using [MORE]

Illumina’s “PopArray” for Population Health

DNA sequencing machine manufacturer Illumina (San Diego, CA) has taken a surprising step toward a competing technology, microarray, for a [MORE]

90% of Advanced Prostate Cancers have Clinically Actionable Genetic Aberrations

Genetic Counseling
In a collaboration involving eight centers in the US and Europe, researchers sequenced DNA and RNA from tissue biopsies [MORE]

Understanding Third Generation DNA Sequencers

First generation DNA sequencers worked by identifying bases in short sections of DNA (50-150 bases at a time).  They [MORE]

Synthetic Macromolecules

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

DNA Sequencing Via Microfluidics

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

Tracking Personalized Biomarkers

Dr. Victor Veulescu in his lab at Johns Hopkins
Residual cancer, after surgery, leaves biomakers in the blood-both protein and [MORE]