Single-cell interaction technology from Scribe Biosciences

Scribe Biosciences' microenvironment on demand technology

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 began by saying “Microfluidics has … Read more

#AGBT19 Advances in Genome Biology and Technology Preview

This year for the first time in three years the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology conference (#AGBT19) will be held back in Marco Island Florida, where it traditionally was held for many years. Those not familiar with AGBT, it is a specialty conference that began in the 1990’s during the run-up to the … Read more

What’s so special about a $1,000 genome?

Sanger Wellcome Trust - book of the human genome via {a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eibar/"}Flickr{/a}.

In every technological revolution, there is a first seminal breakthrough, a burst of commercial activity from many individual companies, and then the eventual maturing of a market, of standards, and the discovery of new uses for the technology in often surprising ways.

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