Discover opportunities and pitfalls in the booming Genetic Testing industry, driven by advances in genetics and lower costs. Explore breakthroughs in Predictive Diagnostics, Pharmacogenomic ...

Lab-grown salmon has finally reached FDA approval and is now being sold in a single Portland restaurant, but there are plans to expand.

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field.

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered the cold sore virus reshapes the human genome's architecture, rearranging its shape in three-dimensional space ...

An internationally recognised forensic DNA expert has begun working with Sri Lanka’s Government Analyst Department (GAD) to strengthen its DNA laboratory, as part of a four-month initiative to improve ...

Attorneys for a man accused of rape want the judge to dismiss the case, saying the prosecutor withheld evidence indicating problems in the Tucson Police Department's DNA lab.

The director of a state-run forensic testing lab has been suspended by Queensland government in the latest scandal over botched DNA sampling.

Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken, J.G. Quintel, Rebecca Sugar, Pendleton Ward, and Adam Muto talk about their work for CN's 25th anniversary.

Minnesota authorities hope new DNA technology will help close the 1993 case of Bone Lake Jane Doe On June 12, 1993, a woman’s head was found floating in Bone Lake in Scandia, Minnesota.

The newly introduced Agilent 5100 Automated Lab-on-a-Chip Platform (ALP) offers a high-throughput system to overcome the limitations of slab gel analysis in protein and DNA sizing and quantitation ...

The current standard methodology in forensic DNA typing relies on amplification of short tandem repeat (STR) markers by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and allele sizes (i.e., length-based) ...