Paid-members only Spatial In a win for scientific innovation, Parse succeeds in invalidating 10x’s single-cell patents
Policy Indirects, what are they good for? Do we seriously need to have a conversation about why indirects are important? Really?!
Genomics Rare diseases get a second opinion and new diagnoses A re-analysis of rare disease patients' genetic data delivers 500 new diagnoses
Oncology FFPE Sucks. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues in oncology diagnostics: is there a better way?
Epigenetics The discovery that X-inactivation is caused by a long non-coding RNA Biologically female mammals have two X chromosomes, but what might surprise you is that one of those X's is turned off.
Paid-members only High-Throughput Sequencing Roche finally has something to say about what they've been doing for the past 10 years with Genia and Stratos Genomics
Oncology Watch out, Structural Variants are coming to MRD testing! SNPs better watch their back, a new variant class is looking to steal the MRD limelight
Molecular Biology The isolation of insulin required a lot of trial and error Insulin: It was believed to exist, but everyone who tried to isolate it failed.
Transcriptomics A foundation model for transcription in all known cell types A new foundation model has been trained that predicts transcriptional activity in all known cell types!
Multi-Omics Multi-omics and drug therapeutic development: A match made in heaven The drug therapeutic landscape expands almost daily. Pairing them with multi-omics is a no brainer!
Chromatin The discovery of sex chromosomes was just as controversial as everything else in genetics Nettie Stevens, a former school teacher turned geneticist, discovered sex chromosomes in 1905. Here's her story:
Paid-members only Conferenceomics Everything Omicly that happened at the 2025 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
Evolution Listen up! Fish gills are more important than you might think Your ears evolved from fish gills!
Transcriptomics If you thought enhancers and promoters were easy, think again! And now for something (not so) straightforward: Enhancers and Promoters
Genetics The weird color patterns of corn kernels led to a major genetic discovery in 1950 While everyone else was distracted by the structure of DNA, Barbara McClintock was discovering a little thing called the transposable element.
Why new memories don't overwrite old ones (in mice, and hopefully humans, too) Keeping things separated: How our brains prevent erasing old memories
Epigenomics Epigenetics and transcription are so intertwined it's hard to tell them apart A molecular mystery: Is it epigenetics or is it transcription? Yes.
Genetics It took 35 years for the first human Mendelian disease to be described Mendel first described his laws of genetic inheritance in 1865. They were promptly ignored for 35 years.