Microarray technology has come of age as a powerful approach to revealing the genome and its dynamic expression through the application of gene-hybridization or gene-expression microarrays. While the ...

Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) was developed to identify pathogenic DNA copy-number changes (e.g., duplications, deletions) on a genome-wide scale, and to map these changes to genomic ...

The human genome project was undertaken to determine the human DNA sequence and analyze variation among individuals. To make use of this information, tools were developed that could collect and ...

Biochips are miniature laboratories that can execute many biochemical reactions simultaneously. Biochips are divided into four categories based on their functionality including protein chips, lab-on-a ...

In the early 1980s, David Gilmour, now an emeritus biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Pennsylvania State University, joined the laboratory of geneticist and biochemist John Lis as a ...

In Correspondence in this week's Lancet, doctors discuss the ethical dilemma of what action to take when tests on a child reveal that they were likely conceived through incest. The Correspondence is ...