A practical DNA sequencer based on nanopores has now demonstrated interesting performance and may be on the way to capturing a significant slice of the sequencing market while opening up new application fields thanks to ...

The planned acquisition of Pacific Biosciences by Illumina could signal a big change in the DNA sequencing landscape, and provides the incentive for an update on a field that still has a number of players and could be ...

A newly developed technique allows the analysis of gene expression within tissues at near-cellular resolution. This opens a whole range of applications and will be a major ingredient of future studies.

In clinical oncology, obtaining sequence data from tumour samples has become practical in terms of logistics, turnover time and costs. The major issue now is the interpretation of this sequence to define actionable targets, ...