GWAS Yields Risk Variants, Methylation Profiles Associated with Peanut Allergy

At Public Meeting, FDA, Stakeholders Discuss Unique Challenges of Regulating NGS Tests

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At the FDA workshop, stakeholders discussed what a regulatory framework for next-generation sequencing tests might look like.

23andMe Gets FDA Clearance to Market Bloom Syndrome Carrier Test Directly to Consumers

The approval marks a first for 23andMe in being able to slowly start reporting health-related test results to its customers again.

Oxford Nanopore Expands MinIon Early-Access Program as Users Present, Publish Early Results

At the AGBT meeting this week, talks will feature real-time surveillance approaches, cDNA sequencing, and de novo genome assembly using MinIon data.

Feds Award MRIGlobal $14.8M to Develop NGS Platform for Infectious Diseases

: MRIGlobal will develop the whole-genome diagnostic system to identify a broad range of human pathogens with a focus on emerging pathogens.

CDC Researchers Use Sequencing, Phylogenetics to Identify Novel Virus

Investigators linked a novel virus, called Bourbon virus, to a man's death using sequencing and phylogenetic approaches.

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Study Describes pH-based Method Potentially Useful for POC MDx

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Developed by New England Biolabs, the method uses pH-sensitive colorimetric dyes and is being utilized by the company to create assays for neglected tropical diseases.

TGAC Lands £6 million for Three Collaborative Big Data Projects

Toxic Reports Buys PathoGenetix's Pathogen ID Technology

Nizo, BaseClear Collaborate on Microbial Genomics

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This Week in Nature

In Nature this week: researchers classify pancreatic cancer into four subtypes using sequencing, and more.

Its Own Version

Genotyping analysis of measles in Ontario indicates the strain there didn't originate from Disneyland or Europe.

Just the Train Going By

The UK Medical Research Council says the proposed path of a new train line could affect research at the Francis Crick Institute.

New Technique a 'Go'

The House of Lords in the UK approves a bill to allow mitochondrial donation.

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Caris Life Sciences rapidly deploys IBM high-performance computing solution

As the molecular profiling Caris Life Sciences performs for cancer patients has advanced, the company's needs for managing high-performance analytics and storage have grown exponentially. Its next-generation sequencing (NGS) processes are now fully supported by IBM supercomputing technologies, including processing by IBM NeXtScale System servers.

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