Biotechnology Oxford Nanopore’s Hand-Held DNA Analyzer Has Traveled the World A British company, number 32 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, bets a tiny analyzer will change how we look at DNA. by Antonio Regalado 2017-06-27T07:00:00-04:00
Business Impact With Patent Suit, Illumina Looks to Tame Emerging British Rival Oxford Nanopore DNA sequencing companies to face off over nanopore technology. by Antonio Regalado 2016-02-24T12:26:44-05:00
Rewriting Life 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016: DNA App Store An online store for information about your genes will make it cheap and easy to learn more about your health risks and predispositions. by Antonio Regalado 2016-02-23T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life After Losing His Wife to Cancer, Google Exec Jeff Huber Will Lead DNA Testing Venture Jeff Huber’s wife died of colon cancer. As the head of Grail, he is on a mission to develop a kind of blood test that could have saved her. by Antonio Regalado 2016-02-10T14:38:01-05:00
Rewriting Life Theranos Gets (Another) Bad Lab Report U.S. regulators add to the pressure on a struggling blood-testing startup. by Brian Bergstein 2016-01-25T17:20:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Illumina’s Bid to Beat Cancer with DNA Tests The DNA sequencing giant will launch a new company, Grail, to develop blood tests to detect cancer. by Antonio Regalado 2016-01-10T16:59:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Is It Really Only $1,000 to Sequence a Genome? Technological improvements have dramatically lowered the cost of reading all your DNA, though most people still don’t have an incentive to have it done. by Anna Nowogrodzki 2015-09-04T12:30:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Inside Illumina’s Plans to Lure Consumers with an App Store for Genomes Gene-sequencing company’s CEO hopes to store the public’s DNA data in online trove. by Antonio Regalado 2015-08-19T13:20:00-04:00
Rewriting Life U.S. to Develop DNA Study of One Million People An Obama initiative seeks to channel a torrent of gene information into treatments for cancer, other diseases. by Antonio Regalado 2015-01-30T06:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life 2014 in Biomedicine: Rewriting DNA, Decoding the Brain, and a GMO Paradox From genetically modified foods to gene therapy, 2014 was a big year for rewriting biology. by Antonio Regalado 2014-12-30T00:00:00-05:00