In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

Researchers are now exploring how to best extract and use saliva-derived DNA for long-read sequencing applications. Download ...

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Saliva is an easily accessible source of high molecular weight DNA for Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing applications.

Scientists at Rice University have unveiled a breakthrough technique that could fundamentally change how DNA is designed for ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that could change how we design DNA for ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and efficiently read DNA containing non-standard bases—a task once thought too ...