Ethics and technology hold the key to the success of synthetic biology Targeted cancer treatments, toxicity sensors and living factories: synthetic biology has the potential to revolutionize... Read more
Deep learning has already had a huge impact on computer vision and speech recognition, and it’s making inroads in areas as computer-unfriendly as cooking. Now a new startup led by Univ... Read more
Investigators at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have developed an analysis “pipeline” that slashes the time it takes to search a person’s genome for disease-causing variations from weeks to... Read more
New software developed by a Cambridge-based company could help diagnose life-limiting conditions in children in minutes rather than years, scientists have said. Rare genetic conditions in ch... Read more
An international team of researchers led by the University of Arizona has sequenced the complete genome of African rice. The genetic information will enhance scientists’ and agricultur... Read more
“Imagine if you didn’t have to plant seeds for crops – if crops were just like your flowers and your maize just came up year after year” Since the first plant genome sequence was obtained fo... Read more
As proof-of-principle, the team designs a potent anti-cancer compound. In research that could ultimately lead to many new medicines, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Researc... Read more
Scientists at Mainz University develop a novel screening procedure for accurately determining the amount of animal, plant, and microbial substances in foods Almost all foodstuffs contain the... Read more
The promise for the future of medicine will be off the charts The first entrant in the Genomics X Prize is taking up the challenge of truly cheap and rapid genome sequencing. If it can do it... Read more
These enormous improvements could have a game-changing significance The mapping of the human genome, announced at the White House back in 2000, had immense impact on biomedical research. It... Read more
Valuable to drug companies in developing personalised medicine for the Malay population of Southeast Asia RESEARCHERS at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) have successfully mapped the... Read more
By now, most people are probably aware of the therapeutic value of stem cells, as they can become any other type of cell in the human body. One of their main duties, in fact, is to replace t... Read more
The new technology “is changing all aspects of microbiology — it’s just transformative.” It was Tuesday evening, June 7. A frightening outbreak of food-borne bacteria was killing dozens of p... Read more
While scientists have long had the ability to edit individual genes, it is a slow, expensive and hard to use process. Now researchers at Harvard and MIT have developed technologies, which th... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The information is likely to have a major impact on livestock breeding The genome of a female Hereford cow has been sequenced, which could be a starting point for major i... Read more
