Paid-members only Start-Upomics Featured Sighs of relief are heard as Carl Icahn's director steps down from Illumina's board
Genomic Sequencing Commercial industrial engineering is the savior of high-throughput genomics We ‘completed’ the human genome in 2003, thanks mostly to commercial industrial engineering.
Genetics Genetic code expansion and how we get to designer proteins Genetic code expansion might be the coolest thing in Omics that you've never heard of.
Evolution Human fetal brain organoids: a controversial new platform A glimpse into the developing brain and a platform for future discovery
Microbiomics Featured Tumor immune microenvironments and how we can exploit them to fight cancer Tumors are bad. Understanding their microenvironment is key in our effort to amp up the immune system to fight them!
Paid-members only Start-Upomics Featured Bionano Genomics recently announced it was laying off 1/3rd of its workforce
Genetics 6LL3, better known as Dolly the Sheep, showed that mammalian cloning was possible in 1997 Why was a sheep the first choice for this ground-breaking work?
Epigenomics Epigenome editors are coming for cholesterol (and other diseases)! Ever heard of an ‘epigenome editor?’ Well, buckle up, because they could be the source of a long-term cure for high cholesterol!
Proteomics PROTACs and LYTACs: How therapeutics can take advantage of proteomic garbage men Cells are biological marvels, but even they need help taking out the trash sometimes.
DNA One of the most important papers in the history of genetics was basically ignored when it was published in 1944 When Oswald Avery, Colin Macleod and Maclyn McCarty published their paper in 1944 showing unequivocally that DNA was the genetic material, it wasn’t very well received.
Paid-members only Start-Upomics Featured Reports of NanoString's death appear to have been severely overstated
Genetics Beadle and Tatum were the first to marry biochemistry with genetics in 1941 The field of molecular biology was born in 1941 through the marriage of genetics and biochemistry.
Proteomics Resolving the proteome with single-cell and spatial proteomics. Single-cell and spatial proteomics: a more refined future.
Evolution Featured The story of how apes (and humans) lost their tails! How a ‘jumping gene’ caused apes (and humans) to quit monkeying around and ditch their tails.
Paid-members only Genomic Sequencing Featured Illumina ruffled some feathers this week with a video appeal to moderate sized "core labs"
Genomics RNA interference was a knockout discovery in 1998! One of the best ways to figure out what a gene does is to get rid of it and see what happens.
Proteomics Proteomics is a data deluge. Taming the firehose is still a work in progress. Once we have all of this amazing proteomic data, what do we do with it???
Microbiomics The establishment and maintenance of your microbiome is mostly a family affair, but be careful who you swap spit with! Being in close contact with other people is just human nature, so it makes sense that the bugs who colonize us also tend to colonize the people around us.
