Our food and our bodies are full of tiny protein fragments called peptides. These small chains of amino acids act as ...

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In just a few decades, DNA sequencing technologies evolved from slow, manual processes to rapid, automated ones, making ...

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Researchers at the Center for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) have developed a new system that combines spore trapping ...

In a breakthrough that redefines both speed and clinical potential, a new world record for the fastest human whole genome sequencing has been set. Think of all the things that can be done in four ...

Arima Genomics, Inc., a cancer diagnostics company bringing DNA sequence and structure together to advance cancer therapy ...

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 funds will help the San Diego biotech commercialize its new benchtop gene-sequencing device and its other genomic ...