The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) recently said that the exercise to sequence 10,000 Indian human genomes and create a database under the Centre-backed Genome India Project is about two-thirds ...

New study finds two next-generation whole-genome sequencing systems deliver broadly similar accuracy in detecting genetic variants. Read more.

Infections by hantaviruses are rare but dangerous, killing 30–40% of infected people. When cases occur, public health ...

To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning stretches across your life, your children's, and your family's. To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning ...

Researchers at the California Department of Public Health developed a new, effective, and low-cost way to carry out whole genome sequencing for hantaviruses.

Michigan Tech's Genomic Sequencing Lab, part of the University's Health Research Institute, plays a leading role in tracking animal-borne illnesses in the Upper Peninsula region while also advancing ...

Questions are appearing on social media about how we know there is a rise in certain COVID-19 variants if individual tests cannot detect specific variants. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and ...

The Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) field has been in constant flux since a wave of newcomers entered the field several years ago that changed the game. The startups offered sequencing users new ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah & HOUSTON & FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history and DNA testing, announced today a landmark move to Whole Genome ...