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Julia Karow tracks trends in next-generation sequencing for research and clinical applications for GenomeWeb. Follow her on Twitter at @Julia_Karow.

Articles Authored by Julia Karow

Nov 11, 2019

Natera Outlines Plans for Cancer, Transplant Assays; Provides Update on Legal Proceedings

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The company expects to launch Signatera for clinical use in colorectal cancer next year and has started to recruit a sales team for the assay.

Oct 24, 2019

All of Us Program Working on IDE Submission to FDA, Weighing Long-Read Sequencing Techs

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The program will likely only generate sequencing data, not genotyping array data, for returning health-related results to reduce the complexity associated with two platforms.

Oct 18, 2019

Selecting Human Embryos for Height, IQ Based on Polygenic Scores Won't Work Well, Study Suggests

According to simulations and a study of large families presented at ASHG this week, current polygenic scores cannot accurately predict complex human traits.

Oct 16, 2019

Large-Scale Schizophrenia Exome Sequencing Study Identifies New Risk Genes

A study presented at ASHG Tuesday showed that newly identified schizophrenia risk genes appear to have some overlap with genes involved in autism spectrum disorder.

Oct 08, 2019

Qiagen Nixes Sequencer Development, Sees New NGS Opportunities With Illumina Deal

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Qiagen will have an undisclosed number of layoffs as a result of the halted GeneReader development, though it plans to create new jobs elsewhere.

Oct 03, 2019

Blueprint Genetics to Open North American Lab as Biopharma Business Grows

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The company announced this week the expansion of a genetic testing program for US patients with inherited retinal disease that it has run with partners since 2017.

Sep 26, 2019

Natera Sees Foundation Medicine Deal as 'Additive' to Other Cancer Monitoring Opportunities

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According to Natera CEO Steve Chapman, the agreement will not detract from Natera's own efforts to establish its exome sequencing-based Signatera assay.

Sep 13, 2019

Natera Finds High Performance for Noninvasive Prenatal Test in All Age Groups

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The company published a quality assurance study for the Panorama test last month and is wrapping up the SMART study, which has enrolled 20,000 women.

Sep 06, 2019

Brown University, PerkinElmer Develop Label-Free Method to Enrich Trophoblasts From Cervical Samples

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The new method may be useful in future noninvasive prenatal tests that rely on the analysis of DNA from fetal cells instead of cell-free fetal DNA.

Aug 28, 2019

Vertebrate, Earth Genome Projects Provide Updates, Stress Impact on Conservation

Illumina is contributing reagents for 100 genomes worth of short-read sequence data to help scientists generate 100 new high-quality reference genomes.

The Scan

One Year On

The University of California, Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna reflects at Science on the anniversary of the announcement of the birth of twin girls who underwent genome editing.

Gigantopithecus' Place in the Family

By studying its enamel proteome, researchers have found the ancient ape Gigantopithecus blacki belongs to a sister clade to that of orangutans.

With BGI There

Bloomberg Businessweek discusses genomics with BGI's Wang Jian.

Science Papers Describe How Gut Microbiome Transplant Affects Neuron Growth, More

In Science this week: researchers find transplanting the gut microbiome in mice affects physiology, and more.

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