How Will Genomic Discoveries Change Our World Views?

Thanks to the advancement of technology, we now sequence countless genomes every day, including personal samples and the DNA of living matter around us. All such data becomes aggregated to...

Ask an Expert: Dr. Yuji Kohara

The Next Medical Revolution Could Come from Innovation in DNA Sequencing Technology

The genome is a set of nucleotide sequences that makes you who you are and different from everybody else. Determining what your sequence looks like used to require enormous time and money. But,...

Ask an Expert: Dr. Yutaka Suzuki (The University of Tokyo)

What Have Bacterial Genomes Got to Do with Us?

In 2003 when the world celebrated the completion of human genome mapping, Craig Venter, an American geneticist who was instrumental to the project’s success, had already moved onto his new target: Marine bacterial genomes....

Ask an Expert: Dr. Ken Kurokawa (National Institute of Genetics)