by Allessandra DiCorato, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard A team of researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new approach to next-generation sequencing that detects genetic mutations within single molecules of DNA. The method, called Concatenating Original Duplex for Error Correction (CODEC), makes next-generation sequencing about 1,000 times more accurate and...
Tag: <span>DNA sequencing</span>
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Fastest DNA sequencing technique helps undiagnosed patients find answers in mere hours
by Stanford University Medical Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new ultra-rapid genome sequencing approach developed by Stanford Medicine scientists and their collaborators was used to diagnose rare genetic diseases in an average of eight hours—a feat that’s nearly unheard of in standard clinical care. “A few weeks is what most clinicians call ‘rapid’ when...
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Where antibiotic resistance comes from
UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG IMAGE: PROF. JOAKIM LARSSON, SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG. CREDIT: PHOTO BY JOHAN WINGBORG By comparing thousands of bacterial genomes, scientists in Gothenburg, Sweden have traced back the evolutionary history of antibiotic resistance genes. In almost all cases where an origin could be determined, the gene started to spread from bacteria that,...
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Offering free DNA sequencing, Nebula Genomics opens for business. But there’s an itsy-bitsy catch
Information wants to be free, says the old internet meme, and a genomics company will now apply that to DNA: Starting on Thursday, the startup Nebula Genomics is giving customers the option of having their full genome sequenced at no cost, a first for direct-to-consumer genetics. There is, naturally, an itsy-bitsy little catch. Customers will...