We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.
Many babies enter the world with silent metabolic or genetic conditions. Today, standard newborn screening can check for some ...
What if a single test could simultaneously contribute to the diagnosis, characterization, and treatment guidance of childhood ...
ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...
The Broad Institute gene-sequencing lab used Roche equipment to read infants’ DNA genomes in less than four hours, cutting an ...
One in every 10 people worldwide is impacted by a rare genetic disease but about 50% of them remain undiagnosed despite rapid increases in genetic technology and testing. Even when a person does have ...
A new tool developed at, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a ...
Mikhail Karasikov and his colleagues at ETH Zurich worked on MetaGraph, a search engine designed for genomic databases containing massive troves of DNA and RNA sequences.