News and Trends 10 Feb 2022 Global Team-up Cuts Genomics Costs to Fight Salmonella Infections …in sub-Saharan Africa. However, carrying out sequencing and bioinformatics in some communities can be a tough task. “Whole genome sequencing can give us information about the epidemiology, virulence, and antimicrobial… February 10, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 27 Jan 2021 Single-Cell Sequencing: Paving the Way for Precision Medicine Next-generation sequencing techniques to determine an individual’s unique genetic code gave rise to personalized treatments. Single-cell sequencing is the next step towards making precision medicine more accurate. Each cell in… January 27, 2021 - 7 minutesmins - By Timothé Cynober Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 4 Apr 2022 Portable Sequencing Is Reshaping Genetics Research …affect the current differently, allowing their identification. Nanopore sequencing Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the company behind the MinION, has been gaining ground in the worldwide sequencing market against giants such as… April 4, 2022 - 11 minutesmins - By Carlos de Rojas Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 20 Mar 2018 DNA Sequencing Unicorn Oxford Nanopore Raises £100M Round at £1.5Bn Valuation …its new funding to expand its genome sequencing product line to address the real-time genetic analysis of infectious diseases, food and water surveillance, and large-scale, on-demand sequencing of plant and… March 20, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 10 Mar 2023 Can CRISPR bring back extinct animals? …scientists to edit DNA. The first step in using CRISPR for de-extinction is sequencing the extinct animal’s genome, as this will provide a blueprint for it. Sequencing the genome will… March 10, 2023 - 10 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 7 Dec 2022 PacBio and Boston Children’s Hospital to study genome to benefit patients …technology, HiFi sequencing detected more than two-fold structural variants and 200,000 more single-nucleotide variants than short-read sequencing. Structural variants contributed to over twice the number of new explanations.” “HiFi sequencing… December 7, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 11 Nov 2022 Beyond Biotech podcast 22: PacBio, Sierra Space …recently announced beta testing of its Onso Sequencing System. The benchtop short-read DNA sequencing platform is expected to provide a new level of accuracy by utilizing PacBio’s sequencing by binding… November 11, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Sep 2019 Icelandic Company to Sequence 225,000 Genomes from UK Patients The Icelandic genomics company deCODE genetics has joined the UK’s Wellcome Sanger Institute in sequencing 450,000 genomes as part of a massive €224M (£200M) project organized by the UK Biobank… September 13, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 18 Mar 2021 Europe Falls Behind in Efforts to Track Covid-19 Variants …the German government only funds the sequencing of samples that are no older than one week. Meanwhile in the UK, the genomics firm Nonacus has launched a whole genome sequencing… March 18, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Anita Chakraverty Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 18 Jul 2025 Hyderabad’s Genome Valley, biopharma’s scale-up hub …genuine innovation hub? Table of contents Genome Valley: Major scale-up hub and vaccine powerhouse While Genome Valley’s ambitions now reach into areas like cell and gene therapy, its foundation remains… July 18, 2025 - 10 minutesmins - By Jules Adam Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 12 Dec 2016 With a new €120M Infusion, Pocket NGS CEO talks Success and Strategy …machines for specialized life science labs, this company is democratizing genome sequencing to make it available to nonspecialized users. As Sanghera remarked, “We think long and hard about ubiquitous DNA… December 12, 2016 - 9 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 27 Jun 2022 The biggest US biotech investments in May 2022 …The firm is applying its sequencing technology to multiple types of ‘omics’ approaches, including whole-genome sequencing, single-cell, and methylation sequencing. The second biggest private biotech investment in the U.S. went… June 27, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email