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
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A Review of SARS-CoV-2 Variants
In an ideal situation the COVID-19 pandemic would be brought under control by vaccine-induced immune responses in most individuals. The reality that might be achieved is a combination of vaccine-induced and some natural...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
The Medical Research Community Has a Duty to Be Racially And Ethnically Inclusive in Their Study Demographics
I am currently a third year undergraduate student at Emory University studying Biology and Religion while on the pre-med track. I am also presently the Digital Marketing and Communications Intern at enlightenbio due to...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
Bluebee’s coherent data strategy set to unify Illumina’s data analytics products
This month’s attention-grabbing headlines in the field of genomics, genetics, and precision medicine can undoubtedly be attributed to the acquisition of Bluebee by Illumina. I spoke with Hans Cobben, CEO of Bluebee and...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
Real World Evidence is not simply a buzzword anymore in our fast-paced world of health technology
Over the last several years, various technology experts have been discussing how the impact of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will affect our daily lives – from what we buy online...read more
