The company has taken an exclusive license to the Casɸ proteins and is working to characterize their capabilities to determine how they can best be used.
Exome sequencing had lower sensitivity and specificity for finding inborn errors of metabolism than conventional screening, but appeared to refine mass spec-based results.
The CasΦ nuclease, which was first discovered in February, is one of the most compact CRISPR proteins ever found, and is active in both human and plant cells.
In Science this week: Fiber-seq method to examine regulatory architecture, mutations in SOST associated with osteoporosis drug-linked cardiovascular events, and more.
In Genome Biology this week: computational approach to determine phylogenetic relationships from single-cell data, metagenomic classification pipeline, and more.
Wired reports the University of California, Berkeley's Innovative Genomics Institute has transformed itself into a diagnostic lab to run SARS-CoV-2 tests.