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Whole-genome sequencing test for under $1,000

Posted in Science on 8th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

For $999, Veritas Genetics Will Put Your Genome on a Smartphone App. If the claim is true, it would shatter a long-held barrier in genetic medicine.

'Designer cells' reverse one-year-old's leukaemia

Posted in Medicine on 6th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

'The technology is moving very fast, the ability to target very specific regions of the genome have suddenly become much more efficient'

The Genomics Revolution:

Posted in Featured, Medicine on 1st Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller

From evolution by natural selection to evolution by intelligent direction.

Researchers map a protein 'tree of life' for species across the animal kingdom

Posted in Science on 9th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller

Roughly 20,000 unique proteins are synthesized by our genes, and work together in combination to execute complex processes.

The CRISPR craze: gene editing poised to change medicine and industry

Posted in Medicine on 29th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

CRISPR/Cas for gene editing has the ability to make targeted changes in DNA sequences in living cells with ease and affordability.