Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...

As precision medicine takes hold in the healthcare industry, hospitals, health systems and healthcare organizations are establishing biobanks — databases storing people’s individual genetic ...

PacBio has announced its participation in the 1000 Genomes Long Read Sequencing Project, contributing long-read transcriptome data to enhance this significant human genomics initiative. Through ...

The Genome 10K Community of Scientists and BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) of Shenzhen, China, have announced a plan to sequence the genomes of 101 vertebrate species within the next two ...

Due to the recent advancements in genome-scale sequencing, complete genomic sequencing of a newborn can be performed shortly after birth. Analysis of this sequence enables the detection of deleterious ...

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 ...

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...

The compromise between sequencing speed and capacity has impacted research for years. To combat this conundrum, in 2018, MGI launched the high-throughput sequencer, DNBSEQ-T7 that can output 7Tb of ...

Is NGS in your future? Get it right the first time with these tips. Things to think about before you start your next-generation sequencing (NGS) project: Touching Base is the dynamic podcast series ...

The NIH NIGMS-funded Wyoming IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Program’s Data Science Core (IDSC) requests proposals from University of Wyoming and Wyoming community college ...