Existing framework allows to immediately offer highest quality DNA products to forensic customers

In the study, spider and prey DNA remained detectable at least 88 days after living organisms were no longer present on the web

UIndy researchers say contamination through secondary transfer of material could implicate the innocent or help the guilty go free

Scientists from around the world catalogued 88 million variants

A simple, lower-cost new method for DNA profiling of human hairs developed by the University of Adelaide should improve opportunities to link criminals to serious crimes.

Problem: PCR is used to detect or quantify nucleic acid sequences in research and diagnostic settings. While high specificity is often achieved, experimental design sometimes necessitates that primers be placed in suboptimal locations. This can lead to problems like the formation of primer dimers or off-target amplification of homologous sequences. The formation of primer dimers consumes primers and other reaction components, which can result in reduced target amplification. These structures can also generate false positive signals in real-time PCR assays that use DNA intercalating dyes to monitor amplification. Off-target amplification is particularly problematic with low copy-number targets because of the high number of cycles required for amplification and in multiplex assays, where many different primers must function well together.

Scientists develop algorithm to uncover genomic insertions and deletions involved in autism, OCD.

Cancer and pre-natal problem diagnoses hastened by breakthrough DNA analysis technique developed at McGill.

Problem: Molecular biology relies on the ability to precisely target and amplify nucleic acids, and next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms and cloning reactions benefit from precise size selection and analytical characterization of samples. For decades, researchers have used electrophoresis with agarose gels for both size selection and fragment-length distribution assessment of DNA samples for downstream assays.

Intensity of glow indicates level of genetic match; potentially useful for identifying microbes, harmful agents, and more.