Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.
The initial Ion Torrent semiconductor chip could read out 10 million DNA letters.
Today doctors must follow complicated steps to prepare samples, and 10% of DNA material is lost, ruining results.
The company claims that DNA will serve up video 10 to 50% faster than any other content delivery system.
The researchers, led by Dr George Zubenko, found that a small area of Chromosome 10 of human DNA called D10S1423, when combined with a previously identified gene APOE E4, produced the increased risk of developing the disease.
The teams also suggested that the time for fish stocks to recover from the changes to their DNA and return to larger fish specimens will take five to 10 times longer than anticipated - if the DNA change can be reversed at all.
In addition to the Creative Foods lasagne, the parent firm said another of its Brakes' products, a spicy minced beef skewer had tested positive for horse DNA at between 1% and 10% levels.
BBC: Horsemeat scandal: Creative Foods lasagne test positive
Applied DNA's stock now trades for 10 cents.
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According to court documents, the FBI's Combined DNA Index System or CODIS a coordinated system of federal, state and local databases of DNA profiles contains more than 10 million criminal profiles and 1.1 million arrestee profiles.
In nine out of the 10 burger samples, the horse DNA was found at very low levels, the authority said, but in one sample from Tesco, Britain's largest retailer, the horsemeat accounted for about 29% of the burger.
In nine out of the 10 burger samples, the horse DNA was found at very low levels, the inspectors said, but in one sample from Tesco, Britain's largest retailer, the horse meat accounted for about 29% of the burger.
Reddoch notes that Agilent doesn't disclose its DNA chip sales, but he estimates it has a mere 10% of the market.
Instead, to judge by the most comprehensive study on the reliability of forensic evidence to date, the error rate is more than 10% in five categories of analysis, including fiber, paint and body fluids. (Meaning: When the expert says specimen X matches source Y, there's a 10% probability he's wrong.) DNA and fingerprints are more reliable but still not foolproof.
Professor Peter Donnelly, of Oxford University, said the Welsh carry DNA which could be traced back to the last Ice Age, 10, 000 years ago.
From 1989 to the end of September, the Virginia DNA databank helped police solve 107 rape cases, 28 homicides, 10 rape homicides, 90 burglaries and breaking and entering cases and 14 other crimes including auto theft, drive-by shooting and arson, Ferrara said.
On January 10, Life Technologies and Illumina both announced plans for faster, same-day DNA sequencers.
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No single customer represented more than 10% of those sales--meaning Merck could well be the largest consumer of DNA chips in the world.
But Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ), which makes rival biotech treatment Avastin, saw its shares rise 10% in early trading.
The NYU researchers sequenced bacteria DNA samples from the throats of 12 healthy people, 12 with gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and 10 with Barrett's.
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