I had the very real pleasure of introducing Prof Lucy Raymond at Biotexcel’s Genomic Medicine 2017 in Cambridge last week. She was speaking in a session that included Dr David Bentley (Illumina Inc – Genomes for Medicine), Prof Stephan Beck (UCL Cancer Institute – Towards Personal Epigenomics), and Prof Sadaf Farooqi (University […]
A short article in todays Times quotes William Cowley parchment makers as saying velum provides the only foolproof way for detecting art forgery. Very simply an artist creates their work on vellum and retains a sample for genetic comparison should a suspected forgery come to […]
The Helios/CyToF mass-cytometry technology is making waves here in our Flow Core and is likely to be a useful addition to multi-omic studies. Fluidigm have a series of webinars that I thought readers of Core-Genomics might be interested in: Decoding human tumors and healthy tissue […]
Two publications presenting really cool technologies recently caught my attention: “Lego for molecular biology” and “CATCH-Seq: CRISPR for target enrichment sequencing”. Both are technologies I’d like to play with, and my son can join in the Lego modelling if we build some here in Cambridge! Lego […]
Nanostring had an interesting poster presented by Joe Beecham at last years AGBT describing their novel single-molecule hybridization-based sequencing chemistry (see AGBT and JPMorgan 2016 coverage from GenomeWeb). This utilizes the Nanostring optical barcodes in a new configuration to deliver Hyb&Seq: no amplification, no enzymes, and no […]
This article was commissioned by Genohub. If you are looking for someone to run a next-generation sequencing project for you then hopefully many of the readers of the CoreGenomics blog will have seen the googlemap of NGS instruments (watch Enseqlopedia.com/NGS-mapped for a major refresh coming soon). However the […]
I thought I’d follow Keith’s lead and make my own suggestions for what might be revealed during Illumina’s presentation at this years JPMorgan event. All the great announcements, by Illumina and everyone else, used to be made at the AGBT meeting in February and that gave […]
Breast cancer researchers publish a lot of papers, and a large number of those will include some genomics, variant identification, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, etc. Increasingly research is being carried out on patient derived material, but cell lines are still a vital part of much of the […]
In yesterdays Fast Company piece Christina Farr (on Twitter) gives a very nice write up of Illumina’s history and where they are going with respect to bringing DNA sequencing into the clinic. I really liked the piece and wanted to share my thoughts after reading […]
A wonderful paper in a recent edition of Science uses radiocarbon dating to show that the Greenland shark can live for up to 400 years – making it the longest lived vertebrate known. See: Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus […]
