HOT-TAKE

A collection of 59 posts

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Genomics

Genome interpretation's big week in the spotlight

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Start-Upomics

De-extincted" Dire Wolves, A Discontinued Sequencer, and PacBio Goes Long

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Regulations

FDA loses the LDT fight in eastern Texas

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Bankruptcy

Has 23andMe collected its last spit sample?

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Oncology

Liquid Biopsies, are we just faking it until we make it?

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Proteomics

Will Nautilus Biotechnology ever release their proteome fingerprinting product?

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High-Throughput Sequencing

What was buzzing at AGBT? Spatial, $80 Genomes, and Roche SBX

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Start-Upomics

Dante Genomics rebrands as Dante Omics AI

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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?!

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Conferenceomics

Everything Omicly that happened at the 2025 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

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Three omics predictions for 2025 (and revisiting my predictions for 2024)

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The week of Sequence-mas

'Twas the week of Sequence-mas, when all through the industry, Not a creature was stirring, not even a BALB/c; The instruments were all running with the utmost of care, Since we all know Illumina customer service won’t be there; With fragments nestled all snug in the flowcells,

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Illumina

HOT TAKE: Illumina sees signals that the sequencing market is recovering

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Regulations

HOT TAKE: With lawsuits percolating in the background, CAP, Congress and others start working on VALID 2.0

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FDA

Just when you thought you might be safe, FDA sticks its nose into MRD testing (again)

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A four legged adventure into the world of cancer vaccines

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A round-up of everything that happened this year (tech wise) at #ASHG

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Will PacBio's new chemistry SPRQ renewed interest in clinical long-reads?

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Exomes

Element Bioscience makes a big bet on rapid exome sequencing

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Genomic Sequencing

After 13 years, Illumina's 'little sequencer that could' has been replaced by a bigger, faster sibling

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Start-Upomics

Let's Get Checked buys TruePill to take on end-to-end at home healthcare

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Start-Upomics

Guardant Co-CEO's million dollar bet roils patients, employees and anyone with two functioning brain cells

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Genetic Screening

Australia just banned the life insurance industry from using genetic testing; America should too

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CRISPR

CRISPR isn't the only relevant genome engineering technique, can we talk about the others too, please?