Advances in genome sequencing technologies are bringing scientists one step closer to a time when it would cost as little as $1000 to read the entire genetic code of a person, two US teams say. A group based at Harvard Medical School has developed a method using beads and fluorescent...
He has been described as 'the Charles Darwin of the 20th century' by Professor Steve Jones of University College London and as 'the dominant hero of the heroic age of molecular biology' by Professor Richard Dawkins of Oxford University. He was a Nobel prize winner, a Fellow of the Royal...
A new project that aims to identify the 'on-off' switches that control human genes has begun, scientists announced last week. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre in the UK and German biotech company 'Epigenomics' hope to complete the work in five years. They say that identifying the chemical markers...
Anniversaries are arbitrary things, but on this 50 anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick, we have, by design as much as coincidence, something else to celebrate: 'The completion of a high-quality, comprehensive sequence of the human genome... The genomic era is now a...
Researchers at the Whitehead Institute for Genome Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts have found that the majority of people of Northern European ancestry are likely to be descendants of a tiny prehistoric population. They used a technique made possible by the Human Genome Project (HGP) to show that Northern Europeans went...
A US biotechnology company is attempting to patent parts of the human genome in order to profit from its research before Human Genome Project - an alliance of government and charity-funded labs - move to ensure that sequenced genetic codes are made publicly and freely available on the Internet. The Maryland-based Celera...
The US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute in California has tripled its capacity to sequence the human genome by leasing 24 MegaBACE DNA sequencers. The Joint Genome Institute, which is targeting human chromosomes 5,16 and 19, now has the capacity to sequence 14 million raw bases each day. Federal...
The Wellcome Trust is to fund 67% of a two year, $45m (£30m), international project to define some 300,000 DNA sequence variations in the human genome. The remaining funds come from a consortium of ten of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, who have also agreed to put the newly discovered...
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