Swabbing Oysters for DNA Could Transform Shellfish Breeding
Every oyster breeding program faces the same awkward problem: the animals that carry the most valuable genes are locked inside ...
Tag: genotyping
New Tool Reads antimicrobial resistance Genes Straight From Long Sequencing Reads
A new tool called Amira uses gene-space de Bruijn graphs to accurately detect single and multi-copy antimicrobial resistance genes directly ...
Blood Thinner During Pregnancy Linked to Better Outcomes in Women Carrying Factor V Leiden Mutation
A case-control study of 200 pregnant women with heterozygous Factor V Leiden found that antenatal anticoagulation was associated with a ...
Thermal Cycler Speed Barely Moves qPCR Ct Values, Exploratory Study Finds
A systematic exploratory study of TaqMan genotyping and housekeeping gene expression assays finds that slow, intermediate and fast PCR ramp ...
Scientists Skip DNA Extraction to Score Type 1 Diabetes Risk Straight From Serum
Researchers at the University of Exeter show that a ten-SNP type 1 diabetes genetic risk score can be calculated accurately ...
Scientists Build a 44-SNP Genetic Barcode to Catch Mislabelled Samples Across Labs
Researchers have developed and validated a 44-SNP genetic barcode, compatible with both sequencing and qPCR platforms, that reliably detects mislabelled ...
Scientists Build a 50,000-SNP Genetic Toolkit to Decode and Breed the Eurasian Steppe’s Vital Sheepgrass
Researchers have developed the first 50,000-SNP target-enrichment panel for the allotetraploid forage grass Leymus chinensis, enabling high-resolution genotyping, population analysis, ...
A Cut-Price Genetic Barcode Could Transform Breeding of China’s Beloved Croaker
Researchers have developed a low-cost 10,000-marker SNP array that matches a high-density platform in identifying croaker populations, reconstructing pedigrees and ...
Pangenome Graphs and a Cosine Trick Let Shallow Sequencing Crack Complex Genes
A new pangenome graph tool called COSIGT uses cosine similarity to accurately genotype complex genomic loci from sequencing data as ...
Deep Learning Tool Sharpens SNP Detection in Nanopore Transcriptome Sequencing
NanoTS, a new deep learning tool published in Nature Methods, enables accurate SNP detection and genotype calling from nanopore long-read ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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