Newborn babies admitted to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) rely on the quick decisions and rapid action of the medical team responsible for them. DNA testing is critical to ...

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 ...

The newest DNA sequencing technology from Swiss multinational Roche doesn’t measure DNA directly but in fact analyzes a different polymer altogether. The technology is not yet available for sale, but ...

Nanopore sensors are tiny devices used to detect and analyze individual molecules by measuring ionic changes as the molecules pass through nanometer-scale openings. These sensors are classified into ...

A private Florida DNA lab is analyzing evidence in the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, mother of "Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. The decision to use a private lab instead of the FBI has drawn scrutiny ...

A pioneering partnership between researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has produced a novel nanopore sensing platform for ...

Metagenomics relies on the use of software programs called assemblers, which can reconstruct tens of thousands of individual ...

(TNS) — Without advanced DNA testing developed by a Texas lab, Iowa City Police investigators may not have been able to identify an infant found in 1992 in an Iowa City landfill because the DNA tissue ...

AURORA, Colo., March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) Precision Medicine Institute today announces the recent opening of its innovative whole-genome ...

The Alaska state crime lab in Anchorage seen on May 6, 2024. State and local law enforcement officials announced a breakthrough on a more than 25 year old cold case in Juneau this summer, thanks in ...