Brian Krueger

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Weekly Reading List: October 6, 2024

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Start-Upomics

Guardant Co-CEO's million dollar bet roils patients, employees and anyone with two functioning brain cells

Genetics

A genetic investigation into the 'population collapse' at Easter Island

What caused the 'collapse' of the Rapanui population on Easter Island? Genetics is now setting the record straight.

Genomics

Pangenomes are here to bring equity to genomics

Reference genomes: what they are and why the next big thing in genomics is the human pangenome.

DNA

The structure of DNA proposed by William Astbury and Florence Bell in 1938

The first 3D structure of DNA was published in 1938. It was generated by Florence Bell, a scientist you need to know.

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Weekly Reading List: September 22, 2024

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September 22, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! This Week's Headlines 1) A genetic investigation into the 'population collapse' of Easter Island 2) Pangenomes are here to bring equity to genomics 3) The structure of DNA proposed by William

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Genetic Screening

Australia just banned the life insurance industry from using genetic testing; America should too

Genetics

The genetics of child sacrifice at Chichén Itzá

Ritual human sacrifice was an important part of ancient Mayan life and now genetics is helping us to identify the origins of those who were sacrificed.

High-Throughput Sequencing

Checking your metrics is an important piece of the sequencing process

High throughput sequencing metrics: Don't be a monster, review them before sending data to the triage team.

DNA

Phoebus Levene and the discovery of the 2-dimensional structure of DNA

Watson and Crick were the first to describe the structure of the DNA double helix. Their major contribution to science was, at its core, a synthesis of all of the best data available at the time.

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Weekly Reading List: September 15, 2024

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September 15, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! This Week's Headlines 1) The genetics of child sacrifice at Chichén Itzá 2) Checking your metrics is an important piece of the sequencing process 3) Phoebus Levene and the discovery of the 2-dimensional

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CRISPR

CRISPR isn't the only relevant genome engineering technique, can we talk about the others too, please?

High-Throughput Sequencing

Let the Nanopore Wars begin: BGI has a new nanopore sequencer

The Nanopore Wars are coming and BGI just fired the first salvo in what is sure to be an exciting conflict

Genetic Screening

Low frequency variants are hard to detect, but don't let that stop you from implying you can catch them all

Detecting variants can be challenging, especially detecting the ones that aren't very abundant.

PCR

Who discovered PCR first? The answer might surprise you

The method below has been cited more than 600,000 times and is one of the most important developments in the history of science.

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Weekly Reading List: September 8, 2024

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September 8, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! This Week's Headlines 1) Let the Nanopore Wars begin: BGI has a new nanopore sequencer 2) Low frequency variants are hard to detect, but don't let that stop you from implying