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Perspective on “Next Generation Sequencing”

DNA Sequencing
DNA sequencing holds great insight for predicting, diagnosing, preventing, and treating cancer, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease, but the [MORE]

Using CRISPR/Cas for “Knock In” Cassettes

CRISPR
“Knock out” mice—so called because one of several means has been used to inactivate a murine gene—have been invaluable research [MORE]

Genetic Map of Great Britain

Geneticists at Oxford University and their collaborators have produced the first fine scale genetic map of any country (according to [MORE]

Genetic Observations from DeCode Iceland

Decode Genetics
St. Louis, MO has a population of about 320,000, as does Iceland. Based on DNA and genealogy studies of [MORE]

The Matchmaker Exchange

Matchmaker Exchange Participants
Some 200,000 people worldwide have had their genomes sequenced, and today it takes about a half hour to [MORE]

Who Gets Credit for CRISPR?

CRISPR_DNA April 15 2014
CRISPR-Cas 9 is a DNA editing technology that may prove to be the medical discovery of the [MORE]

Artificial DNA Used to Make Enzymes

Synthetic XNAs
Here’s an interesting thought: “Life’s ‘choice’ of RNA and DNA may just be an accident of prehistoric chemistry.” That’s [MORE]

You’re a “Knockout!”

Regeneron Biorepository of Knockouts
In 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three scientists (Oliver Smithies, Martin Evans, [MORE]

Very Low Cost DNA Analysis in Development

Molecular Diagnostics InSilixa
While “reality” may be a few years away, InSilixa (Cupertino, CA) claims to have developed a DNA testing [MORE]

First Pre-Natal Genome Sequencing

Baby Genome
Earlier this year a California man was able to have his son’s genome sequenced and interpreted before the boy [MORE]

Issues of Neonate Genomic Screening

Guthrie Card for Newborn Testing
Mandatory newborn screening has been practiced in every state since 1970.  Using Guthrie cards, tests look [MORE]

Craig Venter’s Aging Database Project

Craig Venter
In 2003 Craig Venter’s Celera Corporation tied the government’s Human Genome Project in sequencing human DNA, and now Venter [MORE]

ALS, A Prion Disease?

ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is an incurable motor neuron disease with no known cure.  It afflicts about 140,000 people each year [MORE]

FDA Approves Illumina’s “Next Generation” Sequencer

Illuminax299
Last November, the US Food and Drug Administration gave approval for the first time that high throughput-DNA sequencing can [MORE]