Life Technologies Ion PGM Sequencing 400 Kit
09 January, 2013Life Technologies Corporation has announced a 400 base-pair sequencing kit for the Ion PGM Sequencer. The kit is claimed to read 60% longer than comparable high-throughput benchtop sequencers.
Genome sequencing method evaluation
09 January, 2013Advances in biotechnologies and computer software have helped make genome sequencing much more common than in the past. But still in question are both the accuracy of different sequencing methods and the best ways to evaluate these efforts. Now, computer scientists have devised a tool to better measure the validity of genome sequencing.
Epigenetics and homosexuality
14 December, 2012Is homosexuality genetic? It’s a long-running debate.
Sequencing systems resolve genetic mutations in over 4000 blood cancer cases
12 December, 2012At the 2012 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Roche announced the presentation of results from the large-scale study IRON-II through an international research consortium. Based on next-generation 454 Sequencing Systems from Roche, the study aims to characterise selected genes in individuals with a wide range of haematological malignancies.
QUT evolutionist out to understand a bug’s life
11 December, 2012Dr Stephen Cameron, a Research Fellow from Queensland University of Technology’s Science and Engineering Faculty, has been awarded a Future Fellowship worth almost $700,000 to analyse genomic data to find out how insects evolved and, in doing so, come to a greater understanding of what makes insects such a successful branch on the tree of life.
Survival gene may be key to controlling HIV and hepatitis
27 November, 2012A newly discovered gene that is essential for embryo survival could also hold the key to treating and potentially controlling chronic infections such as HIV, hepatitis and tuberculosis.
A risk gene for cannabis psychosis
15 November, 2012Recent research has implicated a variation in the gene that codes for a protein called RAC-alpha serine/threonine-protein kinase (Akt1) in the risk for cannabis psychosis.
Protein regulation and intellectual disability
26 October, 2012While many intellectual disabilities are caused directly by a genetic mutation in the protein coding part of genes, genetics researchers at the University of Adelaide have found a case where the cause is actually outside the gene, in the regulation of proteins.
Major flaw found in standard approach to gene expression analysis
26 October, 2012Common assumptions employed in the generation and interpretation of data from global gene expression analyses can lead to seriously flawed conclusions about gene activity and cell behaviour, according to Whitehead Institute researchers.
Genetic discovery will help provide advanced warning for stroke
03 September, 2012In what is akin to finding a needle in a haystack, a genetic discovery has helped medical researchers in Newcastle take a further stride towards predetermining the risk factors for stroke.
New York Genome Center purchases four Ion Proton Sequencers for cancer research
16 August, 2012Life Technologies Corporation has announced that the New York Genome Center (NYGC) has purchased four Ion Proton Sequencers for its new Innovation Center. The sequencers will be used to accelerate research on the genetic mechanisms of cancer.
DNA sequenced for parrot’s ability to parrot
03 July, 2012Scientists say they have assembled more completely the string of genetic letters that could control how well parrots learn to imitate their owners and other sounds.
Fusion genes and prostate cancer
31 May, 2012Researchers have shown how a mutation found in half of all prostate cancers may lead to disease development and other cancers.
Free access to the world’s largest release of comprehensive human cancer genome data
30 May, 2012The St Jude Children’s Research Hospital - Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has announced the largest-ever release of comprehensive human cancer genome data for free access by the global scientific community.
Modified cytosines and fundamental life processes
25 May, 2012A new technique allows precise mapping of all 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and 5-methylcytosine sites in a mammalian genome using well-established, next-generation DNA sequencing methods. These modified cytosines have been found to play major roles in fundamental life processes.
