For biologists, DNA microarrays present at once unprecedented opportunities and monumental challenges. In the opportunities column, microarrays produce genome-wide gene expression snapshots, ...

Launched in 1990, The Human Genome Project was a monumental effort to sequence and analyze the entire human genome to understand how genetics influence health. While the Human Genome Project helped ...

The overall process begins with cDNA or oligonucleotides spotted in two-dimensional arrays onto glass slides or nylon membranes, or synthesized on biochips using technology borrowed from the ...