The use of circulating tumour DNA to screen for cancer in asymptomatic individuals is the goal of Grail, initially set up by Illumina. This company is now raising a large amount of capital to develop this project on a much ...

A recent publication describes a sophisticated “liquid biopsy” procedure that analyses both tumoral DNA and proteins present in peripheral blood to provide sensitive detection of different types of cancer. These results ...

Many human DNA sequences have been obtained from ancient remains dating back from several millennia. However, these have low coverage and may contain many errors; this has limited their usefulness for many analyses, in ...