APRIL 11TH, 2019 The shortest bi-weekly genomics research report in the world. Curated by the Emedgene Research Division. Deep Learning in Genomics AI anyone? This article exploded in the Twittersphere, with almost 700 tweets at the time of publication. All jokes aside, genomics is a data-driven science and we [...]
MARCH 28TH, 2019 The shortest bi-weekly genomics research report in the world. Curated by the Emedgene Research Division. Hubris meets Humility This was one of our favorite reads this week, but it could have been the title that hooked us in. How will medical genetics be transformed by [...]
MARCH 14TH, 2019 The shortest bi-weekly genomics research report in the world. Curated by the Emedgene Research Division. Happy Pi Day everyone! Big, bigger, biggest It’s here, UK biobank first batch. 49,960 exomes, 4 million coding variants of which ~98.4% have frequency < 1%. The study should offer [...]
FEBRUARY 28TH, 2019 The shortest bi-weekly genomics research report in the world. Curated by the Emedgene Research Division. Advice for the Sleep Deprived We all want to sleep better at night. Will we find the answer in genomics research? I’m guessing big pharma is watching these closely. Nature Genetics [...]
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has paved the way for a remarkable global surge in discovery and research in the field of genomics, and particularly on rare disease. Rare genetic conditions pose a significant burden on individuals and families, and such research efforts offer a glimmer of hope for the discovery of novel therapies and definitive diagnoses [...]
We’re very pleased to announce our recent fundraising round, led by OliveTree Ventures. Although sequencing costs are below $1000, interpretation is still a major bottleneck to widespread adoption of NGS testing and that’s where we’re focusing our efforts. Here’s the full press announcement, detailing the whys and hows: February 19th, 2019, Palo Alto, California -- [...]
FEBRUARY 14TH, 2019 The shortest bi-weekly genomics research report in the world. Curated by the Emedgene Research Division. Making the case for genetic testing These past 2 weeks yielded interesting research on - yield. Researchers performed prenatal exome sequencing in fetuses with structural anomalies detected by ultrasonography and found [...]
JANUARY 31ST, 2019 The shortest bi-weekly genomics research report in the world. Curated by the Emedgene Research Division. The Rise of the Single Cell What happens when we can look at genetic, epigenetic, spatial, proteomic and lineage information in individual cells? Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) will amplify our understanding [...]
JANUARY 17TH, 2019 The shortest bi-weekly genomics research report in the world. Curated by the Emedgene Research Division. To Seq or not to Seq The results of BabySeq project, in which 159 newborns were sequenced to find genetic variants leading to increased risk of an actionable disease, proved [...]
May you live in interesting times seems like an apt description for the year we’ve had in genomics. Significant advances in science, alongside ethical breaches and major privacy concerns. All the while, the sequencing march forward continues with more interest from countries, consumers and more insurance coverage.I polled the Emedgene team on the most significant [...]
