Omic.ly Weekly 39 August 27, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! So, we're going to experiment with something new since I'm fresh off of a vacation. And NEW content will now be first available to newsletter subscribers a whole week before it
Omic.ly Weekly 38 August 18, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! I'll be on vacation from the 13th to the 25th. Unfortunately, edition 39 might be delayed until Tuesday the 27th, so don't be too worried if you don't get
Therapeutics Need to reset your brain? It might be time to go on a trip Mr. Mackey always told us that, “Drugs are bad.” But sometimes they’re just misunderstood.
High-Throughput Sequencing Being accurate about sequencing accuracy High throughput sequencing metrics: Let’s be accurate about accuracy.
Prenatal Testing Circulating cell free DNA testing was born in 1997 The two gels above spawned a multi-billion dollar industry that didn't exist prior to their publication in 1997.
Paid-members only Genomic Sequencing Oxford Nanopore says that the short-read vs long-read conversation is pointless because they can do both
DNA Featured What came first, DNA methylation or the variant? DNA sequence variants can change more than just the properties of the proteins that genes code for, they can also change what proteins get expressed!
Genomic Sequencing Everything you ever wanted to know about cluster based and single-molecule sequencing Clusters vs single molecules in DNA sequencing: Here’s the short and the long of it.
Breakthroughs Contrary to popular belief, there are 21 amino acids and the 21st was discovered in 1976 You might have been told that there are 20 amino acids. That’s a lie.
Omic.ly Weekly 37 August 11, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! I'll be on vacation from the 13th to the 25th. Unfortunately, edition 39 might be delayed until Tuesday the 27th, so don't be too worried if you don't get
Paid-members only Start-Upomics The 23andMe board tells Anne Wojcicki to do better in her attempt to take 23andMe private after a rocky 3 years as a public company
Genetics If only Ponce de Leon had known about IL-11 Who knew that the fountain of youth was as simple as blocking inflammatory signaling through IL-11?
Genomics Why short-read sequencing can't ever get us a 'whole genome' Short-reads miss things, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the long-read.
Genomic Sequencing Frederick Sanger sequenced the first DNA genome, he didn't use 'Sanger Sequencing' to do it Frederick Sanger invented a famous DNA sequencing method. It's not the one pictured below (which he also invented).
