News on NGS technologies, RNA-seq, clinical sequencing, & sample prep in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
Scientists have sequenced more than 2,700 distinct strains from the National Collection of Type Cultures, a non-profit biorepository run by Public Health England.
The two studies used Drop-seq RNA profiling to discover essentially all cell types and establish cell lineages in a model organism flatworm.
St. Jude researchers found germline mutations in the transcription factor gene IKZF1 in 0.9 percent of presumed sporadic pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia cases.
Researchers found that children with autism are more likely to inherit cis-regulatory structural variants from their fathers than their unaffected siblings.
Researchers used a screen of mutation hotspots present in kinase active domains to identify protein kinases commonly inactivated by cancer-linked mutations.
