The very high information density of DNA has prompted speculations on its use for information storage. The high costs of DNA synthesis and sequencing made this highly unpractical; however recent progress (notably array ...

Comme on l’a dit et répété dans ces colonnes [1–3], la valeur prédictive des profils génétiques à base de Snip vendus par 23andMe, Navigenics et autres « entreprises DTC » (direct to consumer) est très faible pour ne pas ...

The HGP-write project, announced in 2016 but not really implemented yet, comes back as a project aimed at constructing an “ultra-safe” human cell line fully resistant to virus infection and with other desirable characteristics. ...

The accumulation of extensive repositories linking phenotypic and genetic information, together with new computation methods, makes it possible to derive polygenic scores for susceptibility to common diseases that turn out ...