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
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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
Enlightenbio Releases New Report: Warehousing Clinical & Genomics Biomedical Data – A Needs & Challenges Analysis Report
New, critical, investigative, and qualitative report analyzes the observations and learnings across the complex components of biomedical data warehousing, querying, and collaboration. Palo Alto, CA, May 13...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
Enlightenbio Releases New Clinical Genomics Report: The Interplay Between Clinical Research & Clinical Diagnostics
New, qualitative report provides an in-depth analysis across the complex, multi-step clinical genomics data process, including genomic data generation and analysis, data flow, and data warehousing. Palo Alto, CA...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
Gene Editing Revamped with CRISPR Prime Editor – Result Is A High Efficiency, More Precise Gene Editor With Versatile Editing Capabilities And Lower Off-Target Effects
In October 2018 we published a blog (CRISPR Base Editors: An Upgrade for Treatment of Genetic Disease) describing some of the concerns surrounding the use of the CRISPR technology, and highlighting a relatively new...read more
BC Platforms Aims to Advance Clinical Decision-Making by Enhancing Clinical Data with Genomics Information
This month’s “Company Spotlight” provides a closer look at the Finnish-Swiss company BC Platforms, a genomic data management and analysis solutions provider, working to revolutionize drug development and to enable...read more
