One of October’s headlines in the field of genomics and genetics included the acquisition of BioDiscovery by Bionano Genomics. I spoke with Soheil Shams, President, Founder, and CSO of BioDiscovery and now Chief...read more
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Enabling Precision Medicine: Life (Sciences) in 2030
Just 20 years ago, some expected the human genome to hold all the answers. Instead, we accumulated an almost unlimited backlog of new questions – a direct consequence of the ever-growing interest in unlocking the...read more
Scientific Integrity: A Coincidental Encounter
I recently interviewed the Dutch scientist, Dr. Elisabeth Bik, a microbiome and science integrity consultant. After years of working as a research associate at Stanford University and as the scientific editorial...read more
The Much Needed Narrative Behind Recent Female Representation Among Nobel Laureates
Why I, as an undergraduate student studying science, enjoyed this conversation In Illumina’s SPARK 2021 Conference (April 26-27, 2021), Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna discuss the joys, challenges, and ethics of gene...read more
FAIR Data or the Journey Towards Data-Centricity – Pushing Towards Making Data Discoverable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
Data is the blood being pumped through the organism of personalized medicine and will be – as has always been – the key to the identification of novel biomarkers and potential new therapeutics. We have never...read more
COVID-19 – Viral Vector Versus mRNA Vaccines
In January this year, we published a blog that covered the development of the first two COVID-19 vaccines that were given emergency use authorization (EUA) (The Promise and Hope of RNA-based vaccines for COVID-19), and...read more
AGBT 2021 – A Virtual Summary with Spatial Profiling Dominating
AGBT 2021 took place virtually this year! But the conference was nevertheless the attention grabber of the week with a twitter storm, active reporting, and several commercial product launches as demonstrated by a slew...read more
The Promise and Hope of RNA-based vaccines for COVID-19
The worldwide devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic is well known to everyone, as is the resulting push to develop effective vaccines and therapies that have been proceeding on a massive scale and at rapid pace...read more
2020 Was Not Just About COVID-19
Certainly, the coronavirus and, with that COVID-19, has dominated 2020 and massively impacted not only our daily lives, but also the medical health care community and healthcare facilities in particular. Genomics proved...read more
The Role of the Human Gut Microbiome in Type 1 Diabetes
The human microbiome – which is the sum of all the microorganism that live in conjunction with the human body – includes eukaryotes, archaea, bacteria as well as the viruses and phages that infect them. Not...read more
