A major new study in the UK has shown that combining whole-genome sequencing (WGS ... of its kind – drew on the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project and NHS records and has already led to calls ...

The root causes of diseases like cancer, dementia and heart disease are expected to be better understood following a ...

Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the company delivering a new generation of nanopore-based molecular sensing technology, today ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 ...

The genetic information in an organism is called its genome. The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short, was started at the end of the last century. It was very ambitious and had several aims ...

Gordon Sanghera, CEO of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, said the development of a world-first “epigenetic map” of the human ...

The Human Genome Project was an international research project that sequenced all of the genes found in humans. This ambitious project began in 1990 and concluded in 2003. One goal of the project ...

Today, a genome's worth of DNA can be sequenced in only 30 minutes, at a cost of £600. The success of the 100,000 Genomes Project underlines the UK's position as a world leader in this field.

The Human Genome Project took 13 years ... one of the researchers and from the University of Birmingham, UK, told the BBC: "We've gone from a situation where you can only do genome sequencing ...