Do you listen to podcasts? Would you be interested in learning about how Olink Proteomics’ technology is applied in biomarker discovery, drug discovery, proteogenomics, and routine research into biological mechanisms? If so, here’s the first ‘teaser’ advertisement, and we will be launching the first episode in a week. You can […]
Promising technology out of UCSF to use droplets as containers for single-cell interaction assays Way back in 2009 I remember the first time my sales manager at RainDance Technologies presented their core technology to a sophisticated group at the US National Institutes of Health, with an introduction to microfluidics. He […]
A direct-to-consumer COVID-19 test available via Amazon with a convenient saliva sample-type and fast central-laboratory processing The current environment for this third (or is it fourth) wave of COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 infections is reaching new records. The first week of January 2021 is seeing a 7-day moving average of cases above […]
Abbott’s new $5, 15-minute, 50 million per month test is a game-changer This past week an eventful announcement came from Abbott Laboratories, manufacturer of several diagnostic platforms, including several already approved fro COVID-19 testing including amplification-based IDNow, and a few antibody automated systems, one prominent one being the Architect. Now […]
The experience of working to build something from nothing is invaluable. And I am happy to announce that I am now officially open for the next adventure in my own career. Announcement Number One: Moving On from Heligenics You read on this blog (it was only June 18, which you […]
It was about a year ago that I highlighted here some neat graphene technology out of Cardea Biosciences, and in that context I mentioned CRISPR-based diagnostics. (If interested, you can find the post here.) The FDA recently approved under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Sherlock BioSciences’ SARS-CoV-2 Rapid diagnostic (FDA EUA […]
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 […]
Here at the American Society for Human Genetics (#ASHG18) it has been several years since I’ve attended. The exhibit hall is as large as ever, plenty of new firms in DTC (Direct To Consumer) genomics, bioinformatics, and other technical feats are out in full-force. The new Singlera website is now […]
Announcing a big move for Dale affecting his family, his employer, his colleagues, and his friends Note: This article originally appeared on LinkedIn. The magic wand of early detection Several years ago at a meeting with sales management, someone asked a provocative question: “If you had a magic wand, what […]
Two Pore Guys (2PG) has come a long way in a little over 18 months Background of Two Pore Guys At the recent Next Generation Diagnostics Conference in Washington DC (#NGDx18) Two Pore Guys had a nice exhibit where I had the privilege of meeting Tyler Shropshire Ph.D., their Sr. […]
The world of content marketing is an ever-changing experience. A bit of history A few years ago it was a full-time effort to conduct video interviews, write blog posts, and help the sales team in other ways at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Genetic Systems Division. (You can see some of that […]
Background Back in 1989 in Belgrade Yugoslavia, Radoje Drmanac had an idea that would shape the next decade of genetic analysis, which was being able to sequence megabases of DNA information by a collection of 11-mers to 20-mers. Doing the mathematical calculations, this paper lays out what kind of DNA […]
