As a graduate student at Stanford University in the early 1990s, Jonathan Eisen convinced a friend with access to one of the first automated DNA sequencers to run 10,000 base pairs for him. "Doing it ...

This outsourcing of labor is possible thanks to the emergence and widespread proliferation of automated DNA sequencing instruments, which can accomplish in one day what would take a whole team of ...

Celera Genomics Group and Applied Biosystems Inc. are close partners in the gene-decoding industry and their prowess has turned both into lightening rods. Competitors decry their control of the DNA ...

Despite these advances, the synthesis of DNA nanostructures has remained a largely manual and time-consuming process. Traditional approaches often require the precise mixing of hundreds of unique DNA ...

In the early 1980s, Dr. Caruthers invented an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA that remains the leading method today. The chemical reactions that Caruthers discovered accurately ...

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A group of a few dozen colorful translucent 3D blobs, many of which overlap, contain brightly colored dots against a black background. Three-dimensional transcriptomics data from an instrument ...

Whole genome analysis plays a critical role in the development of life-saving diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines, with growing interest in noncoding regions and Whole genome analysis plays a ...