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People in the News at MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Roche, TwinStrand, Quantum-Si, More

Executive appointments, promotions, and departures in omics and molecular diagnostics for the week of Oct. 3, 2022.

TwinStrand Biosciences Lays Off 'Nearly 50 Percent' of Workforce

The Seattle-based NGS sample preparation firm informed employees of the decision Monday, nearly a year and a half after it raised $50 million in Series B funding.

Singular Genomics, TwinStrand Biosciences to Develop NGS Solutions for G4 Platform

The companies intend to create an ultrasensitive rare variant detection tool for applications such as MRD testing while expanding their own product offerings.

People in the News: New Appointments at Cytek Biosciences, TwinStrand Biosciences, Yourgene, More

New Take on Duplex Sequencing Enables Accurate Low-Level Mutation Detection With Less Sequencing
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Called Concatenating Original Duplex for Error Correction (CODEC), the method ligates both strands of a DNA molecule into a single duplex for sequencing.

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Genetic Testing Approach Explores Origins of Blastocyst Aneuploidy

Investigators in AJHG distinguish between aneuploidy events related to meiotic missegregation in haploid cells and those involving post-zygotic mitotic errors and mosaicism.

Study Looks at Parent Uncertainties After Children's Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Diagnoses

A qualitative study in EJHG looks at personal, practical, scientific, and existential uncertainties in parents as their children go through SCID diagnoses, treatment, and post-treatment stages.

Antimicrobial Resistance Study Highlights Key Protein Domains

By screening diverse versions of an outer membrane porin protein in Vibrio cholerae, researchers in PLOS Genetics flagged protein domain regions influencing antimicrobial resistance.

Latent HIV Found in White Blood Cells of Individuals on Long-Term Treatments

Researchers in Nature Microbiology find HIV genetic material in monocyte white blood cells and in macrophages that differentiated from them in individuals on HIV-suppressive treatment.