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

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Aug 07, 2019

Australian Team Builds Federated System for Integrating Genomics Into Healthcare

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The national project has developed infrastructure for implementing genomics into clinical care and is now studying clinical utility and cost effectiveness.

Jul 24, 2019

Dutch Startup Gen-X Offers Functional Genome Annotation Services

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The company, which spun out of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, has developed technology to identify promoters and enhancers.

Jul 18, 2019

Startup Nephrosant Aims to Launch Noninvasive Kidney Transplantation Test by Early 2020

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The UCSF spinout aims to develop noninvasive tests to detect kidney injury for the transplantation field and to diagnose and monitor chronic disease.

Jul 10, 2019

Multi-Gene Panel Testing Moderately Cost Effective for Lung Cancer Patients

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A Personalized Medicine Coalition-funded study has found that NGS-based testing is moderately cost effective but that access to targeted treatments remains a hurdle. 

Jun 26, 2019

NIH Newborn Sequencing Projects' Lessons, Next Steps Highlighted at Meeting

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During an NIH meeting, researchers from four newborn sequencing research projects discussed results of their studies and future implications.   

Jun 24, 2019

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Aims to Enable Infectious Disease Sequencing Globally

With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Biohub will help implement metagenomic sequencing for infectious disease projects in 10 countries.

Jun 24, 2019

At ASM Microbe, Stakeholders Discuss Reimbursement Issues for Multiplex Infectious Disease Tests

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Stakeholders discussed last year's decision by Palmetto to deny coverage for large respiratory panels and discussed the way forward for test developers and labs.

Jun 19, 2019

Mayo Study Highlights Importance of Dark Genes; Illustrates Limitations of Short-Read Sequencing

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The researchers found that dark regions impact more than 700 protein-coding genes and also identified a novel mutation in a known Alzheimer's disease gene.

Jun 12, 2019

Metagenomic CSF Sequencing Improves Diagnosis of Neurological Infections, UCSF Study Finds

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The team is now conducting additional studies of mNGS in plasma, as well as looking to reduce turnaround time by running the test on a nanopore sequencer.

Jun 11, 2019

Nebula Genomics Inks Deal With EMD Serono To Help Enable Personal Genome Sequencing

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In a pilot study, EMD Serono will have the genomes of lung cancer patients sequenced for research but participants will also gain access to their genomic data.

The Scan

Sweet Assembly

A Brazilian-led team of researchers reports it has generated a sugarcane genome assembly that encompasses more than 99 percent of its genome.

Oh, You're Aging Well

Certain plasma proteins could be used to gauge a person's age and whether they are aging well, according to HealthDay News.

Unexpected Close

GenomeWeb reports that Veritas Genetics is suspending its US operations.

Science Papers Describe MicroRNA Targeting Efficiency, Approach for Single-Cell High-Throughput Chemical Screens

In Science this week: approach to measure microRNA targeting efficiency, strategy to conduct high-throughput chemical screens at single-cell resolution, and more.

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