Genomics & DNA Analysis

An ambitious UK sequencing project aims to learn more about patients with cancer and rare diseases

Turn your smartphone into a portable fluorescence microscope for imaging and sizing DNA molecules

DNA from ancient archive gives researchers a window into animals of the past

Will the future see crime scene investigators collecting nasal swabs or rinses from deceased victims to identify the assailant? In a word: yes.

“During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art,” wrote Herbert Spencer in 1861. So, is analytical chemistry truly as much an art form as a science?

Multi-isotope analysis uncovers the life story of King Richard III – and, for the first time, links wine intake to oxygen isotope composition

Our capacity to generate data is unsurpassed, but how do we cope with the data deluge? It’s time to embrace data-driven discovery in biology and medicine.

While Bernard Kuster and his colleagues were compiling ProteomicsDB, a separate team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, and the Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore, India, tackled the challenge in a different way

Gun crime is not going away, but current forensic tools are limited at best. We believe that attenuated total reflectance (ATR) imaging could fill a big gap in the crime scene investigator’s armory.

Nick Kim gifts us with his very analytical and amusing view of the world around us.