POSTS TAGGED AS DNA sequencing

Geisinger on Routine Sequencing

Geisinger Health
“Precision medicine” based on DNA sequencing is all the buzz in healthcare except among payers who deem molecular profiling [MORE]

Battle of the Biobanks

Eric Dishman
Biobanks seem to be the “in thing.” The Department of Veterans Affairs has its “Million Veterans” program; Geisinger Health [MORE]

Rapid Sequencing in the NICU

Neonate
Lab techs at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego have done whole genome sequencing on neonates in as little as [MORE]

Hand-Held DNA Sequencer

Nanopore Handheld DNA Sequencer
It has been 20 years since the public and private efforts to sequence the human genome began [MORE]

Microfluidics for Cell Culture

Microfluidic Applications Labs-on-Chips
Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices are an evolving technology, often with divergence between performance and possibilities. This piece offers a [MORE]

Kaiser Permanente’s Research Biobank Is Currently Largest (Non-Governmental) in the US

Research Biorepository Kaiser Permanente
This piece should be read with an eye to the previous story about hacking DNA sequencers. The [MORE]

Perspective on DNA Sequencing

DNA 3D Model
Keep in mind that the Human Genome Project completed its “rough draft” only a dozen years ago; since [MORE]

Long Read Sequencing

DNA Sequencing
Carney complex is a rare genetic disease that presents multiple benign tumors in the heart, skin and other tissues [MORE]

Device Chip Developments

IMEC Silicon Neuroprobe
This piece is an overview of silicon based devices that are made on the same scale as cells [MORE]

Barcoding and Tracking T-Cells in Immunotherapy

T-Cell (orange) in Blood
In adoptive T-cell therapy for cancer, T-cells are isolated from the patient’s blood, and then grown up [MORE]

Sequencing Every Species on Earth

Cell Types
Recently, researchers called together by the Smithsonian Initiative on Biodiversity Genomics, and the Beijing Genomics Institute, proposed launching a [MORE]

Single Cell Sequencing

Bio-Rad Illumina Single-Cell Genome Analysis
Early last month, the collaboration between Illumina (San Diego, CA) and Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, CA) released [MORE]

Comparing Sequencing Platforms Using the Same Tumor Tissue

Foundation Medicine (Cambridge, MA) and Guardant Health (Redwood City, CA) both have genomic sequencing platforms for genomic cancer. Foundation analyzes [MORE]

Molecular Autopsy

In a nation of 323 million, sudden death of 11,000 people a year is a relatively small toll. According to [MORE]