Omic.ly Weekly 33 July 14, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! This Week's Headlines 1) Parkinson's Disease gets a new risk factor 2) Sequencing libraries and strategies for doing quality control 3) Defenders from the sea: Our bloody history with horseshoe crabs
Paid-members only Omics One of the most underappreciated techniques in Omics is Hi-C. That needs to change
RNA Bridge RNAs are here to take CRISPR's crown Move over CRISPR, bridge RNAs are here to make the precision genome edits that you can't.
Fecal Matters The messiest part of Omics? Dealing with all the different sample types The good, the bad, the...uhhh: Everything you ever wanted to know about all the different Omics sample types!
High-Throughput Sequencing In 2009, high throughput sequencing gave us our first glimpse of the 3-D organization of the DNA in our nuclei While chromosomes are usually depicted as X's, they actually spend most of their time jumbled up like a giant ball of yarn.
Omic.ly Weekly 32 July 7, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! If you're enjoying what you're reading, please feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues who might get a kick out of it too! This Week's Headlines
Evolution Why do women live longer than men? Sperm production is expensive Are you a guy? Do you want to live longer? It might be time to ditch your sperm.
Genetics Genealogy databases aren't just for finding your relatives anymore The killer app for consumer genetics literally is to catch killers. Here's why:
Genetics The 'Histone Code' fundamentally changed how we think about gene expression Histones were once thought to just be dumb structural proteins that held chromatin together; now we know that the ‘histone code’ is a major regulator of gene expression.
Omic.ly Weekly 31 June 30, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! But, do you have a friend or a colleague who you think might also enjoy this newsletter? Feel free to forward and make them fans of Omic.ly too! This Week's Headlines 1)
Paid-members only Start-Upomics Tempus' good very bad week included a $410m IPO, a lawsuit and a ~$20 swing in their post-IPO stock price
Autoimmunity A new genetic cause for Inflammatory Bowel Disease has been discovered Inflammatory diseases affect 5% of the population but we have a poor understanding of how to treat them. Multi-omic studies are changing that.
Breakthroughs mRNA vaccines almost weren't a thing It is estimated that COVID-19 vaccination has prevented over 20 million deaths worldwide. We can thank the dogged perseverance of a browbeaten scientist for that.
Omic.ly Weekly 30 June 23, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! This Week's Headlines 1) A new genetic cause for Inflammatory Bowel Disease has been discovered 2) A trip down the Omics rabbit hole 3) mRNA vaccines almost weren't a thing Here&
