The work by a team at UCD’s Conway Institute will cast light on how susceptible we are to certain diseases BACKGROUND:THE DECODING of the first Irish genome represents a significant advance in the ...

Tyranosaurus rex and diplodocus are as familiar to youngsters nowadays as lions and bears were to previous generations. Museums give the huge beasts prime exhibition space. Advertisers, toymakers, ...

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 ...

DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body's basic components. However, building a functioning organism also requires precise instructions about when, where, and how ...

"This is truly a platform technology, a whole new way of doing things that can change the paradigm of the way things are done in the lab." Elsewhere, a half-dozen companies are racing to come up with ...