Discovery of a novel mechanism unique to severe COVID leads to a potential treatment

In a large meta-analysis, circulating protein levels of severe COVID patients along with many thousands of genomic datasets leads to an exciting discovery: a mutation in a gene called FAS that turns it into a non-membrane-bound, soluble form, interrupting normal immune function. In addition, an on-market chemotherapeutic drug has been shown to lower soluble FAS, … Read more

A 2022 NGS Cost and Throughput Comparison

Cost and Throughput calculations for NGS systems

With Singular Genomics announcing the new G4 system at the end of 2021, and Element Biosciences announcing the AVITI system in March 2022, here is a look at the existing state-of-the-art systems in a single graphic After spending some time in Los Angeles this week visiting a few existing and potential customers for Olink Proteomics, … Read more

Element Biosciences AVITI™ Sequencing System

A new approach to next-generation sequencing, a little-known company unwraps an instrument that competes directly with the Illumina NextSeq 2000 with a third more of the throughput at half the consumables price For a technology that started in 2005 with the first 454 / Roche FLX next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform, followed in 2007 with the … Read more