metagenomics
Quadram Institute Leads €1.1M Consortium Using Nanopore Sequencing for AMR Surveillance
The international consortium aims to develop technology based on metagenomic sequencing, rather than bacterial culture, to assess the level of AMR in a sample.
Evvy Closes $14M Series A for Vaginal Microbiome Testing, Launches Add-on STI Screen
The New York-based firm will use the funds to scale access to its testing, discover new vaginal health biomarkers, and validate outcomes of its service.
Direct-to-consumer microbiome tests often go beyond what the research can support, but the large databases being generated by some companies are supporting diagnostic development.
Inflammatory Arthritis Linked to Characteristic Gut Microbial Community Changes
With gut metagenomic sequencing on individuals with or without inflammatory arthritis, researchers flagged microbial taxa and pathways coinciding with disease types.
Researchers from China and the US have produced the first broad benchmark of genomic and metagenomic assemblers specifically for PacBio HiFi sequence data.