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A collection of 49 posts

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Conferenceomics

Everything Omicly that happened at the 2025 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

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Three omics predictions for 2025 (and revisiting my predictions for 2024)

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The week of Sequence-mas

'Twas the week of Sequence-mas, when all through the industry, Not a creature was stirring, not even a BALB/c; The instruments were all running with the utmost of care, Since we all know Illumina customer service won’t be there; With fragments nestled all snug in the flowcells,

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Illumina

HOT TAKE: Illumina sees signals that the sequencing market is recovering

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Regulations

HOT TAKE: With lawsuits percolating in the background, CAP, Congress and others start working on VALID 2.0

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FDA

Just when you thought you might be safe, FDA sticks its nose into MRD testing (again)

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A four legged adventure into the world of cancer vaccines

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A round-up of everything that happened this year (tech wise) at #ASHG

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Will PacBio's new chemistry SPRQ renewed interest in clinical long-reads?

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Exomes

Element Bioscience makes a big bet on rapid exome sequencing

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Genomic Sequencing

After 13 years, Illumina's 'little sequencer that could' has been replaced by a bigger, faster sibling

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Start-Upomics

Let's Get Checked buys TruePill to take on end-to-end at home healthcare

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

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Genetic Screening

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

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CRISPR

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

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Start-Upomics

Illumina recently courted investors with a presentation on how their new product R&D pipeline is going to resurrect the Illumina stock price

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Start-Upomics

Nabsys is back, baby!

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Genomic Sequencing

Oxford Nanopore says that the short-read vs long-read conversation is pointless because they can do both

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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

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Protein Sequencing

There are a lot of companies working on protein sequencing, so who is in the lead?

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Start-Upomics

Everything that happened this week in short-reads

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Omics

One of the most underappreciated techniques in Omics is Hi-C. That needs to change

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Start-Upomics

The Grail/Illumina Class-Action lawsuit gets a juicy update

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Start-Upomics

Tempus' good very bad week included a $410m IPO, a lawsuit and a ~$20 swing in their post-IPO stock price

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High-Throughput Sequencing

If you thought the sequencing wars were hot already, have you considered what a $10 genome might do to them?