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MDS Layoffs Topped Most-Read GenomeWeb Daily News Articles Last Week

Jul 21, 2008
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - What are GenomeWeb Daily News subscribers reading? Below are the five most-read articles for the five-day period ended Friday, July 18.
 
1. MDS to Cut 210 Jobs in Restructuring (from July 18)
 
2. LabCorp Takes Over as 23andMe's Genotyping Service Provider (from July 17)
 
3. Pacific Biosciences Raises $100M in Series E Financing; Plans to Commercialize Sequencer in 2010 (from July 14)
 
4. NHGRI Awards Four Groups $31M to Study Role of Genetic Variation in Human Disease (from July 17)
 
5. US Genomics Receives $9.1M to Develop Pathogen Detection Tool (from July 16)
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The portal, described in Nature Genetics, houses variant-related messenger RNA splicing insights drawn from RNA sequencing data in nearly 335,700 samples — a set known as the 300K-RNA resource.

Automated Sequencing Pipeline Appears to Allow Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Lineage Detection in Nevada Study

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UK Team Presents Genetic, Epigenetic Sequencing Method

Using enzymatic DNA preparation steps, researchers in Nature Biotechnology develop a strategy for sequencing DNA, along with 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, on existing sequencers.