Molecular scanners may soon become commonplace in smartphones thanks to Si-Ware Systems, which announced its fully integrated chip-based spectral scanning solution on Tuesday. Unlike the molecular ...

Fifteen years into the microarray revolution, biochip images – row upon row of red and green spots on a field of black – have become as ubiquitous as DNA gels once were. But how are those pictures ...

The sequencing phase of the human genome project is now near completion, but then what? An even harder challenge remains — to identify the structures and functions of all proteins encoded in the ...