Interview 11 Mar 2019
The Man Behind Next-Generation Sequencing
…we can sequence the human genome. Now it’s, “how can we use sequencing to improve human health?” That’s where I think sequencing is headed now. One of the advantages of…
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
News and Trends 29 Feb 2016
Exploiting the Power of NGS to Diagnose Rare Diseases
Diploid (Belgium) is using genome sequencing data to diagnose rare diseases – and is now charging only if its algorithms can match the genome to a specific rare disease. Patients…
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…
