HOT-TAKE

A collection of 39 posts

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After 13 years, Illumina's 'little sequencer that could' has been replaced by a bigger, faster sibling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

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Start-Upomics

Illumina recently courted investors with a presentation on how their new product R&D pipeline is going to resurrect the Illumina stock price

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Start-Upomics

Nabsys is back, baby!

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Genomic Sequencing

Oxford Nanopore says that the short-read vs long-read conversation is pointless because they can do both

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Start-Upomics

The 23andMe board tells Anne Wojcicki to do better in her attempt to take 23andMe private after a rocky 3 years as a public company

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Protein Sequencing

There are a lot of companies working on protein sequencing, so who is in the lead?

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Start-Upomics

Everything that happened this week in short-reads

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Omics

One of the most underappreciated techniques in Omics is Hi-C. That needs to change

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Start-Upomics

The Grail/Illumina Class-Action lawsuit gets a juicy update

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Start-Upomics

Tempus' good very bad week included a $410m IPO, a lawsuit and a ~$20 swing in their post-IPO stock price

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High-Throughput Sequencing

If you thought the sequencing wars were hot already, have you considered what a $10 genome might do to them?

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Start-Upomics

Who's prioritizing bringing the next generation of sequencing technology to the clinic? The answer might surprise you.

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Start-Upomics

Grail might have been too bold a choice for a company name

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High-Throughput Sequencing

Another summer of sequencing is upon us. Whose sparkle will beguile the hearts of suitors and dazzle the eyes of onlookers?

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Hype Cycles

AlphaFold, the second coming of Christ or just another useful tool in the life sciences?

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Genomic Sequencing

Spatial omics (and other creative applications) might give that dying NovaSeq of yours a second life!

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FDA

Did the FDA chicken out with its push to regulate lab developed tests? Kinda.

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Genetics

What happens if insurance companies start using your genetic data against you?

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Genomics Featured

Pacific Biosciences drops nearly 50% after a bad earnings report and a mind-boggling update to their product roadmap

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DNA

Oncology screening might be hitting its stride

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Start-Upomics Featured

Bionano Genomics recently announced it was laying off 1/3rd of its workforce