The Core Competency of Google is not Life Sciences

10 years ago

What does Google X have to offer in life science diagnostic development? I’ve picked up a phrase, ‘it’s a narrow…

First Customer PhiX Data from the NextSeq 500

11 years ago

Illumina announced in January at the JP Morgan Healthcare conference the NextSeq 500, which was trumpeted (at least at the…

Going ‘Behind the Bench’ (a new blog)

11 years ago

First of all I'm announcing to the world a new Thermo Fisher Scientific / Life Technologies blog entitled 'Behind the…

A new role, a new team and a new blog

11 years ago

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." -…

Dana Pe’er, Garry Noland and single-cell proteomics at AACR

11 years ago

During AACR a number of great sessions were presented at 'meet the expert' sessions at 7am in the morning. One…

Steven Rosenberg and T-Cell Immunotherapy for Cancer

11 years ago

As a person who worked at a melanoma research institute once upon a time (the John Wayne Cancer Institute in…

Elana Simon at the American Association for Cancer Research

11 years ago

The reason I enjoy coming to large meetings like the American Association for Cancer Research (April 5-9 in San Diego)…

Notes from the NCI’s Third Symposium on Translational Genomics

11 years ago

Living in the Washington DC area is a privilege. As a native Californian who has been on the East Coast…

WaferGen SmartChip TE™ – a PCR-based approach to target enrichment

11 years ago

WaferGen is a California Bay-Area company that originally developed an idea similar to BioTrove, which was to create a solid…

Ion Chef™ System ships to first customers

11 years ago

Way back when I was pouring 35S-labeled dNTP Sanger sequencing polyacrylamide gels (and fond memories of using reagents like degassed…