Double helix celebrates 60; detecting calories without taste; bacteria vs. tumor; perceptual consciousness in babies
Double helix celebrates 60; detecting calories without taste; bacteria vs. tumor; perceptual consciousness in babies
This month’s AACR attendees, including National Cancer Institute Director Harold Varmus, discuss new approaches to cancer research using whole genome sequencing.
Venom-based drugs for pain; microbes in the deep ocean; altruistic, suicidal bacteria; a call for open access; clinical sequencing; the newest genomes
A new initiative lead by the UK’s National Health Service aims to sequence the genomes of as many as 100,000 patients, a project that will cost £100 million.
Puerto Rican businesses and residents come together to support the genomic sequencing of the island’s only native parrot species, hoping to help protect the endangered bird.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
The crucial importance of language in the debate over the regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests
The largest collection of genetic and medical data in the United States links telomeres and genetic variants to longevity and disease.
The 1000 Genomes Project reveals the most comprehensive catalog to date of variation in the human genome.
J. Craig Venter plans to develop a machine to find and sequence DNA on Mars, but another genomics mogul, Jonathan Rothberg, may beat him to it.