An organized resource list to check out Keeping track of the outbreak Coronavirus Tracked by the Financial Times. The source of those cool ‘Number of days since 10th death’ by country (to get a comparative picture of doubling rates, points at which lockdowns were initiated) as well as a table […]
The FDA will release under EUA a good antibody test, but time is of the essence to get decent tracking and tracing in-place Without adequate testing for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that is now sweeping rapidly around the world, there can be no isolation of cases and the chain of […]
If the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin is confirmed by larger studies this actually could be “one of the biggest game-changers in the history of medicine” During this worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, now that states such as California and New York have enacted ‘stay at home’ orders, universities and many school […]
With digital PCR OncoBEAM and NGS Plasma SafeSEQ technologies sensitive to 0.02% and 0.05% MAF respectively, expect to hear more from Sysmex-Inostics for biomarker development, companion diagnostic commercialization and patient testing It isn’t unusual for me to be found at different conferences, whether ASHG, AGBT, AACR or occasionally Molecular Tri-Con […]
Mission Bio’s single-cell targeted DNA enrichment by multiplex PCR shows additional capabilities they are developing, and Celsee’s CTC enrichment also claims sc-RNA-Seq and sci-ATAC-seq potential In 2015 at the AACR conference in Philadelphia PA I noticed a poster that looked eerily familiar – the formation of water-in-oil droplets (“emulsions”) via […]
High-content imaging continues to be a theme, and will Hi-C become a popular research tool? Yesterday Akoya Biosciences showed a system that could do 50 fluorescent markers for high-content imaging of tissue samples, with a separate stage the mounts on an existing fluorescent microscope. Nanostring also celebrated the GeoMx launch […]
Akoya Biosciences offers 50+ protein markers along with existing Phenoptics offering, while Berkeley Lights has a unique single-cell, live-cell analysis platform Every year the American Association for Cancer Research conference is a major conference for major product announcements and new companies to test the cancer research market. And while walking […]
Cardea Bio Inc. and Nanosens Innovations Inc., Keck Graduate Institute and UC Berkeley detect two deleted DMD exons in 15 minutes down to 1.7 fM sensitivity We are currently living in an exciting time in molecular diagnostics, as the fields of chemical fluorescence, optics, electronics, microfluidics, biochemistry, genomics and nanofabrication […]
Automation may seem a straightforward task, for those who have not tackled it before As an attendee of Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (#AGBT19) there are plenty of new things to check out, and while it may not be as cutting edge as spatial genomics or mRNA isoform discovery […]
An unusual presentation by a recently-retired NASA scientist Dr. John Charles shares an unusual and highly entertaining presentation entitled “From here to Mars: How the Twins Study and the year-long ISS mission have moved us closer to the red planet” The agenda of AGBT runs a wide range of topics, […]
NGHRI’s Dr. Adam Phillippy presents a remarkable dataset – the telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome When the completion of the Human Genome Project was announced on June 6, 2002, President Bill Clinton said the following: We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of […]
A Wellcome Trust supported effort, The Long Read Club seeks to resurrect a time-honored tradition: protocol development After a long 5 days away from home and work and the routines that surround it, attending AGBT (and likewise other major conferences) is a tremendous amount of work. I was teasing a […]
