Veritas is offering DNA reading, cheap, for two days. But most consumers don’t understand the difference between that and a 23andMe test. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bef12c926a9b50be3c085f3/master/pass/wired-headers2400-B6.jpg
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After 13 Years, Scientists Finally Map the Massive Wheat Genome
The first high-quality, complete sequence of the bread wheat genome could support the creation of the first genetically modified wheat. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b74bc150be6e81f6aa462a8/master/pass/wheat-1005001988.jpg
The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists
Enlarge (credit: State Historical Society of North Dakota) Bread, like wine, is pivotal in Judeo-Christian rituals. Both products exemplify the use of human ingenuity to re-create what nature provides, and the fermentation they both require must have seemed nothing less than magical to ancient minds. When toasted, rubbed with garlic and tomato, doused with olive […]
Gene editing crunches an organism’s genome into single, giant DNA molecule
Enlarge / Individual chromosomes (right) have a complex organization when packed inside a cell’s nucleus (left). (credit: Thomas Ried/NIH) Complex organisms have complex genomes. While bacteria and archaea keep all of their genes on a single loop of DNA, humans scatter them across 23 large DNA molecules called chromosomes; chromosome counts range from a single […]
Pocket-sized DNA reader used to scan entire human genome sequence
Enlarge / Sequence on a stick. (credit: Oxford Nanopore) A few years back, a company called Oxford Nanopore announced it was developing a radically different way of sequencing DNA. Its approach involved taking single strands of the double helix and stuffing them through a protein pore. With a small bit of current flowing across the […]
A salamander with a genome 10 times the size of ours regrows lost limbs
Enlarge / It’s so cute! Let’s chop off its leg in the name of science. It’ll grow back. (credit: IMP Vienna) Some human tissues, like the liver and muscles, retain the ability to regrow after damage. But most of our bodies do not—if you lose a limb, the limb’s gone. But elsewhere in the animal […]
Google Is Giving Away AI That Can Build Your Genome Sequence
The deep learning tool can assemble a full genome from raw DNA more accurately than every existing method. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a29cd4e15e73c599bf95401/master/pass/GoogleDNA-TAFA.jpg Feed: All Latest
Zika virus hit earlier than thought in Brazil, Florida, genome tests reveal
The Zika virus arrived a year before the first case was detected in Brazil, and several months before it was first reported in Florida, gene sequencing studies suggest. CBC | Health News
The 'Explosive' Bombardier Beetle Got Robbed by a Dingo for the Title of Most Interesting Genome
GIF GIF source: YouTube This week, the Pacific Biosciences SMRT Grant announced the lucky winner of the World’s Most Interesting Genome competition. The contest was voted on by the public and a dingo named Sandy won the day. But was that the right decision? No, Sandy is kind of like a doggo and it’s clear […]
