Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. (PGDx), a leader in cancer genomics, announced today that it has entered into a collaboration with QIAGEN to provide ...

The Personal Genome Project takes into account personal genomics as well as lifestyle information, such as one's living environment, habits, and behaviors. Permitted use: Download and Share.

The first commercial whole-genome sequencing service was launched last week by startup Knome, based in Cambridge, MA. (See “Get Your Genome Sequenced for $350,000.”) ...

Right now, a personal genome analysis has its limits. At $350,000, a lucky child might receive the gift in lieu of, say, a college education.

It would be a mistake to think that reaching the age of 79 has mellowed James Watson. Fifty-four years after he discovered, with Francis Crick, the structure of DNA, and 45 years after sharing the ...

Want your own personal genome sequenced? Researchers said they had found a faster and cheaper way to do it that would cost only about $2.2 million.

But I am also aware that getting one’s personal genome sequenced is not for everyone – some people simply don’t want to know, and feel that the information could cause them a lot of anxiety.

Illumina's technology is extremely well-established, and serves as the backbone for most large-scale genome sequencing projects currently underway (including the majority of the samples sequenced ...

That’s a question researchers are exploring as more health-care providers, companies and research groups begin providing results of personal genome sequencing to patients and their doctors.

The Personal Genome Project takes into account personal genomics as well as lifestyle information, such as one's living environment, habits, and behaviors. Permitted use: Download and Share.

George Church, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, was one of the pioneers in the Human Genome Project. Now he’s hatching a new genomic enterprise – the Personal Genome Project ...