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Monica Heger tracks trends in next-generation sequencing for research and clinical applications for GenomeWeb.

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Aug 09, 2018

Natera Plans New Reproductive Health Tests; Reports Progress in Oncology

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The firm is working on harnessing its ability to assess fetal fraction to develop new methods to predict fetal aneuploidy risks and pregnancy complications.

Aug 07, 2018

Australia's Genepath Developing Diagnostic Gene Panels for Newborn Screening, Developmental Delay

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The startup's first test focuses on diagnosing 60 conditions for which treatment is available.

Aug 03, 2018

PacBio Plans Sequel Upgrades, Will Sunset RSII in 2021

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The firm plans to release an upgrade that will improve read lengths and throughput, with an eye toward being a player in the population sequencing market.

Jul 31, 2018

Population Sequencing, Consumer Genomics, Clinical Market Poised to Drive Illumina's Growth

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Large-scale population sequencing projects and consumer genomics markets are picking up and oncology continues to be a strong market for Illumina.

Jul 31, 2018

Arc Bio Merges Sequencing, Informatics Technologies to Tackle Pathogen Detection

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The firm is developing products based in part on DNA-enrichment and bioinformatics technologies developed at Stanford and Harvard, respectively.

Jul 27, 2018

Garvan Institute Building Case for WGS as First-Line Test for Some Genetic Disorders

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The Garvan team has shown that whole-genome sequencing can diagnose more cases than targeted panels and is now demonstrating its cost-effectiveness.

Jul 25, 2018

Veracyte CEO Says RNA Sequencing Data Will Drive Future Pharma Deals, Products

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Veracyte anticipates that it can tap into the growing precision medicine market by leveraging its database of RNA sequencing data for thyroid and lung cancer. 

Jul 19, 2018

CosmosID Launches NGS Lab to Expand on Metagenomics Offerings; Plans Move Into Clinical Realm

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The firm has ongoing collaborations to use metagenomic sequencing in water treatment facilities and aims to move into the microbiome testing space.

Jul 17, 2018

Michigan Team Characterizes Biases in Small-RNA Sequencing Techniques

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The researchers found that protocols that use random sequence adapters as opposed to fixed sequence adapters have less bias in small RNA sequencing.

Jul 11, 2018

Public Health England Team Describes Metagenomic Sequencing Strategy to ID Viral Pathogens

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The researchers developed a protocol for dengue and chikungunya virus detection, which they plan to continue to test for outbreak monitoring and diagnostics.

The Scan

This Week in Science

In Science this week: International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium publishes the bread wheat cultivar Chinese Spring reference genome, and more.

New Framework Suggested

At his FDA Law Blog, Jeffrey Gibbs discusses FDA's technical assistance for the draft Diagnostic Accuracy and Innovation Act.

Penguins With Roving Eyes

The New York Times reports that genetic testing has uncovered unfaithful penguins at a Utah aquarium.

Funding Lost

Cancer researcher loses funding under new Wellcome Trust anti-bullying policies, the Guardian reports.

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