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A collection of 49 posts

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Start-Upomics

Who's prioritizing bringing the next generation of sequencing technology to the clinic? The answer might surprise you.

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Start-Upomics

Grail might have been too bold a choice for a company name

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High-Throughput Sequencing

Another summer of sequencing is upon us. Whose sparkle will beguile the hearts of suitors and dazzle the eyes of onlookers?

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Hype Cycles

AlphaFold, the second coming of Christ or just another useful tool in the life sciences?

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Genomic Sequencing

Spatial omics (and other creative applications) might give that dying NovaSeq of yours a second life!

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FDA

Did the FDA chicken out with its push to regulate lab developed tests? Kinda.

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Genetics

What happens if insurance companies start using your genetic data against you?

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Genomics Featured

Pacific Biosciences drops nearly 50% after a bad earnings report and a mind-boggling update to their product roadmap

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DNA

Oncology screening might be hitting its stride

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Start-Upomics Featured

Bionano Genomics recently announced it was laying off 1/3rd of its workforce

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Start-Upomics Featured

Reports of NanoString's death appear to have been severely overstated

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Genomic Sequencing Featured

Illumina ruffled some feathers this week with a video appeal to moderate sized "core labs"

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Start-Upomics Featured

Francis deSouza is back from his post-Illumina purgatory with a new AI start-up

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Genomics Featured

Complete Genomics wants America to give them a second chance. Should they?

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Start-Upomics Featured

Is the life sciences bankruptcy bloodbath waxing or waning? Let's hope Nanostring and Invitae aren't emblematic of what's to come!

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Conferenceomics Featured

There was a lot of 'omics sizzle at this years' AGBT, and I'm not talking about the wicked sun-burns

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Illumina Featured

Add open-source sequencers to the list of things short-read manufacturers have to deal with now

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Illumina Featured

Is spatial-omics the new sequencing land-grab?

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Start-Upomics Featured

RavGen got Natera to cough up $57m. What's going on with non-invasive screening test IP?

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Conferenceomics Featured

A round-up of everything omics that happened at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

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Start-Upomics Featured

23andMe has been in the news recently about a data breach, raising important questions about data security in the age of genomics

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Proteomics Featured

It was a bad week for plasma proteomics darlings Olink and SomaLogic

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Diagnostics Featured

Long-reads are coming to clinical diagnostics in short order

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Genomics Featured

With the FDA setting up camp in LDT-ville, which sequencing companies are best suited to help labs transition to IVDs?