Researchers are now exploring how to best extract and use saliva-derived DNA for long-read sequencing applications. Download ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

Acquiring a map, a sequence, and an increased understanding of the human genome merits a special effort that should be organized and funded specifically for this purpose. Such a special effort in the ...

A whole-genome sequencing approach shows early promise over current commercial methods for identifying more patients likely ...

A pair of papers published this week in the two leading scientific journals mark the completion of the Human Genome Project and the start of a new project to find all of the functional elements in ...

UC Santa Cruz has a long history of pioneering advances in genomics research. The first working draft of a human genome sequence was assembled on our campus in 2000, which has led to enormous leaps in ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

Genetic variants that cause rare disorders may remain elusive even after expansive testing, such as exome sequencing. The diagnostic yield of genome sequencing, particularly after a negative ...

The landscape of next-generation sequencing (NGS) continues to be defined by astonishing technological progress. We continue ...

PacBio and Intus Bio have launched GutID, the first commercial human gut health test, showcasing their collaboration and innovation in microbiome research. GutID utilizes PacBio's HiFi sequencing ...