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Three top DNA sequencing companies - 454 Life Sciences, Illumina and Applied Biosystems -- have joined forces with the 1000 Genomes project, putting their technology to work mapping the human genome Read more...

The bill on sequencing a genome has fallen from a few billion dollars to about $60,000 in just five years. And with most of the sequencing tech companies racing to be able to do it for Read more...

If you can't afford $350,000 to have your genome sequenced, wait awhile. The price is dropping fast. The race is on to get the job done for less than $1,000, and companies like Pacific Biosciences is Read more...

After the big headlines hit last week about J. Craig Read more...

The full human genome containing both sets of chromosomes is considerably more complex than the half-measure of DNA decoded by a consortium of academic groups in 2003. That's the conclusion of a Read more...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 18 -- Scientists at deCODE genetics in collaboration with colleagues from Emory University today report the discovery of the first variant in the sequence of the human Read more...

Bioengineering researchers at UC San Diego have painstakingly assembled a virtual human metabolic network that will give researchers a new way to hunt for better treatments for hundreds of human metabolic disorders--from diabetes to high levels …

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Interested in promoting the advancement of personalized medicine, biomedical researchers are being offered access to a new online resource that identifies small changes in the human genome that are linked to disease. "Having this computational tool available to researchers will help prioritize which genetic variations are most likely to alter the structure and function of a protein, and provides us with critical information related to disease susceptibility, progression, and targets for …

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An international research team announced today the completion of a genome-wide map that charts the genetic variability of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Published in the December 10 advance online edition of Nature Genetics, the study reveals striking variation within the pathogen's genome, including an initial catalog of nearly 47,000 specific genetic differences among parasites sampled worldwide. Release

ExonHit has developed a new messenger RNA map coming from human genome expression based on their discovery of alternative splicing events. This new map, they say, will allow scientists to easily characterize transcripts expressed from genes of their choice. Release