The San Diego Zoo’s prolific koala population is getting a boost from a local biotech company working to unlock the secrets hidden in the animal’s genomes. Illumina is teaming up with the San Diego ...

Probes are short, single-stranded chains of nucleic acid that seek out and latch themselves to a complementary sequence of nucleic acids, often buried anonymously in a much larger section of DNA/RNA.

AGBT is also, increasingly, a showcase for instruments for spatial biology, a fast-growing field that involves pinpointing the location of RNA and protein molecules en masse. Tarbox calls the meeting ...