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There's a revolution underway. It's digital, but not in the computing sector. I'm referring to the world of genomics, which...

The computing revolution is not the only one driven by constant scaling of technologies: the field of genomics -- the study of DNA sequen...

One new approach to teasing apart the complex relationships between genes and common diseases such as cancer, heart disease, asthma and d...

After I published Rebel Code in 2001, there was a natural instinct to think about writing another book (a natural masochistic instinct, I s...

This is what the virus really looks like: 1 atgaaggcaa tactagtagt tctgctatat acatttgcaa ccgcaaatgc agacacatta 61 tgtataggtt ...

We're getting close : The cost of determining a person’s complete genetic blueprint is about to plummet again — to $5,000. That is the p...

One of Larry Lessig's favourite tropes is that we live in a read-write world these days, where creation is just as important as consump...

When I was writing Digital Code of Life , I sought to be scrupulously fair to Craig Venter, who was often demonised for his commercial appro...

One of the fun aspects of writing my book Digital Code of Life was grappling with all the 'omics: not just genomics, but proteomics and...

One of the most important shifts in science at the moment is towards dealing with the digital deluge. Whether in the field of genomics, par...

It sounds so exciting, so good: UK Biobank is a long-term project aimed at building a comprehensive resource for medical researchers. The f...

Yesterday, when I was writing about the structures found in DNA, I said Between the genes lie stretches of the main program that calls the ...