Genomics News

January 25, 2019

Scientists at the Institute of Neuroscience (ION) in China have reportedly used gene-editing technology to knocked out BMAL1, a core circadian regulatory transcription factor, using gene editing at the embryo stage in macaque monkeys, one of which was then cloned to produce five virtually identical specimens.......

January 16, 2019

Rapid innovation in sequencing technologies and improvement in assembly algorithms have enabled the creation of highly contiguous mammalian genomes. Here we report a chromosome-level assembly of the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) genome......

December 19, 2018

A new high-throughput sequencing technique created by scientists at the University of Chicago will directly analyses transfer RNA (tRNA) to give a clear picture of microbial communities’ reactions to environment changes. The technique, outlined in Nature Communications, will uncover......

December 14, 2018

MGI, a subsidiary of BGI Group, introduced its newest model of genetic sequencer, MGISEQ-T7, which vastly improves speed, throughput and flexibility, at the 13th International Conference on Genomics (ICG-13) in Shenzhen. The most powerful MGI sequencer to date......

December 10, 2018

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today the launch of the iSeq™ 100 Sequencing System. The new, next-generation sequencing (NGS) system delivers exceptional data accuracy, at a low capital cost, making Illumina technology available to virtually any lab.......

December 4, 2018

The Ion S5/S5 XL next-generation sequencing system enables a simple targeted sequencing workflow for your lab at an affordable price, with reliable performance and industry-leading speed. The Ion S5/S5 XL System leverages the speed of semiconductor sequencing with impressive......

November 29, 2018

He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who stunned the world by announcing the birth of two CRISPR-edited twins this week. He claimed to have turned off a gene called CCR5 to offer total protection against HIV, as well as smallpox and cholera. On the international gene-editing......

November 22, 2018

In the era of personalized medicine, scientists are using new genetic and genomic insights to help them determine the best treatment for a given patient. It is now possible to look at what one single cell is doing at any given time with a technique called single-cell RNA sequencing......

November 19, 2018

10x Genomics Chromium Controller – High-throughput automated barcoding and library construction for powerful new RNA and DNA sequencing applications. The Chromium Controller is powered by 10x GemCode Technology and enables the encapsulation in a single run of......

November 16, 2018

ATAC-seq, or Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin coupled with NGS, is a technique to locate accessible chromatin regions. The method is a fast and sensitive alternative to DNase-seq (DNase I hypersensitive sites sequencing) or MNase-seq......

November 13, 2018

Hi-C method is based on Chromosome Conformation Capture, in that chromatin is crosslinked with formaldehyde, then digested, and re-ligated in such a way that only DNA fragments that are covalently linked together form ligation products. The ligation products contain the information......

November 9, 2018

DNA methylation strongly affects chromatin structure and the regulation of gene expression. For many years, bisulfite sequencing PCR (BSP) has served as the “gold standard” for measuring DNA methylation. BSP has high reliability and accuracy, and can accurately determine the methylation status of......