This blockchain startup wants to pay you for your DNA data

DNA Dollars

A new startup called Nebula Genomics wants to reward you for your genomic data in the form of "Nebula credits." But will those ever be worth anything?

This Blockchain Startup Wants to Pay You for Your DNA Data

But don't expect to be paid in U.S. dollars.

The tool could one day be used by doctors to rapidly analyze a genome, treat disease, and prescribe personalized medicine.

Google released an AI that analyzes your genome

Artificial Intelligence

A new Google tool called DeepVariant is capable of analyzing genetic data rapidly and accurately by using a machine-learning system.

Google Released an AI That Analyzes Your Genome

And it may save your life. 

Democratizing DNA Fingerprinting

This has applications ranging from natural disasters to cancer research.

Using DNA, new software can verify identity in minutes

Hard Science

Teams of researchers have developed software that utilizes DNA sequenced from a small device to verify identity. The method has some exciting potential.

Using DNA, New Software Can Verify Identity In Minutes

The software works with a small portable DNA sequencer.

Advanced genome sequencing has allowed for such an incredible project.

A Chinese province is sequencing 1 million of its residents' genomes

Health & Medicine

A project out of China's National Health and Medicine Big Data Nanjing Center will sequence one million Chinese genomes to identify population trends.

A Chinese Province Is Sequencing 1 Million of Its Residents' Genomes

The project is being advised by Harvard geneticist George Church. 

A Chinese Province Is Sequencing One Million of Its Residents’ Genomes

Now, rapidly reading DNA anywhere, at will, is possible.

Earth & Energy

The team is now exploring the feasibility of rapidly generating a reference sequence database from the incredibly diverse collection of plants help in Kew's living collection and herbarium as well as applications for monitoring plant health.

Scientists Sequence a Whole Genome to Identify a Plant Species Within Hours

New opportunities are now available with portable, real-time DNA sequencing.

A new sequencing technique that maps out and analyzes DNA damage demonstrates how bacterial cells function in two critical excision repair proteins.

Scientists Have Figured out How Life Is Able to Survive

This could help us combat superbugs.

A team of scientists unveiled a new tree of life on Monday, a diagram outlining the evolution of all living things. And the researchers found that bacteria make up most of life's branches. 

There’s a Revised “Tree Of Life,” And It Has 1000+ New Species

Scientists at Berkeley have created a new "Tree of Life."

Sci-Fi Visions

If successful, this could allow us to quickly and reliably screen for cancer without any invasive procedures. 

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DNA Dollars

This Blockchain Startup Wants to Pay You for Your DNA Data

Artificial Intelligence

Google Released an AI That Analyzes Your Genome

Hard Science

Using DNA, New Software Can Verify Identity In Minutes

Health & Medicine

A Chinese Province Is Sequencing One Million of Its Residents’ Genomes

Earth & Energy

Scientists Sequence a Whole Genome to Identify a Plant Species Within Hours

Hard Science

Scientists Have Figured out How Life Is Able to Survive

Hard Science

There’s a Revised “Tree Of Life,” And It Has 1000+ New Species

Sci-Fi Visions

A Single Blood Test That Can Detect All Cancers? It’s in the Works

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