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New Method for Reporter Proteins

NanoporeTERs
“The new system dubbed “Nanopore-addressable protein Tags Engineered as Reporters” or “NanoporeTERs” can detect multiple protein expression levels from bacterial [MORE]

KOD1 Polymerase for Higher Fidelity PCR

Reaching Greater PCR Speeds, Specificity, and Fidelity
“KOD is a recombinant DNA polymerase based on the endogenous KOD1 polymerase found in [MORE]

High Speed Microfluidics that also Sequences CTCs

HydroSeq CTC Chip
“Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a high speed microfluidic chip that can separate circulating tumor [MORE]

Hacking Sequencers with Malware of Synthetic DNA; Scary

Illumina Genome Analyzer II Sequencing Machine
Today’s science-fiction can become tomorrow’s breakthroughs or its nightmares. The piece describes such a bad [MORE]

Perspective on DNA Sequencing

DNA 3D Model
Keep in mind that the Human Genome Project completed its “rough draft” only a dozen years ago; since [MORE]

Genome Sequencing in the Palm of Your Hand

Nanopore miniION
It wasn’t that long ago when a DNA sequencer, like the ABI machines the Human Genome Project relied upon, [MORE]

Fetal Sequencing from the Mother’s Blood

New Down's Test
Because a pregnant woman’s blood carries white blood cells of her own and her unborn child, it [MORE]

How Useful is Sequencing for Disease Prediction?

Dr. Bert Vogelestein
A familiar assertion in “personalized medicine” is that DNA sequencing will be able to predict future health [MORE]

A Handheld DNA Sequencer for $900

Mini Sequencer
DNA sequencing is an idea that has launched many ships, and the latest technology in this field is [MORE]

Genomics-Based Rx

Alexis Borisy (left) and Michael Pellini lead an effort to make DNA data available to help cancer patients.
With lower costs [MORE]

Exome Sequencing for Hypertension

With low-cost clinical genomic sequencing coming sooner than most medical experts expected, the question still is how useful will [MORE]

The $1,000 Genome, Pretty Soon

Ion Torrent Chip
Ion Torrent, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, CA) is now taking orders for it’s “Ion [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]

Semi-Conductor Based Sequencing

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