Meg Staton, left, associate professor of bioinformatics and computational genomics in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, and Scott Schlarbaum, director of the UT Tree Improvement ...

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Twenty-five years ago this week, President Bill Clinton stood before a podium in the East Room of the White House, and, in front of an all-star lineup of researchers and dignitaries, made a historic ...

Over the last 10 years, breakthroughs in understanding the genetic instructions passed from parent to offspring have put researchers closer than ever before to efficiently decoding DNA with 100% ...

In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully decoded the DNA of the giant moa, a bird that roamed New Zealand before its extinction hundreds of years ago. This discovery, ...

Celera Genomics fired a new salvo in the race to understand the genetic basis of biology last week. Reading the human genome --our entire set of genetic instructions --is the main event, but decoding ...

With a background in biology and genetics, Cao saw the chip's potential for genetic analysis and for decoding the human genome. In late 2003, he left his junior research-associate post at Princeton, ...

A global revolution in genetic sequencing is helping University of Otago scientists solve the mysteries of ultra-rare disorders, for one family at a time. It’s called the diagnostic odyssey: an ...

University molecular biology professor Thomas Shenk and visiting research fellow Wade Bresnahan were separating viral DNA fragments on a gel when they noticed something odd. When DNA strands are ...

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