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  One of the youngest members of the RNA Institute’s 2020 Summer Bioinformatics program, Cristina DeMeo, has put the skills she learned to great use. Cristina, a local high school student has used her knowledge of the computational analysis of large ...

The SARS-CoV-2 NGS Assay has the ability to analyze the entire RNA viral sequence, to determine the presence or absence of the virus. Furthermore, in an optional research-use only (RUO) report the...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for scientists at UCLA Health to begin using a new method of COVID-19 detection using sequencing technology called SwabSeq. The method is capable of testing thousands of...

Anindita “Oni” Basu, PhD, an assistant professor of genetic medicine at the University of Chicago, has received the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. These...

Population genomics company Helix said Monday that it has received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a COVID-19 test that’s based on next-generation sequencing. It is the first clinical lab to receive approval...

A new study has been initiated to evaluate whole-genome and RNA-sequencing as a first line diagnostic approach for patients in Sweden with acute leukemia. The study will assess the potential of these sequencing approaches to replace...

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $3.8 million in funding for 23 grants to support open source software projects essential to biomedical research, enabling software maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement. As part of CZI’s Essential Open Source Software for ...

NY State Department of Health is Partnering with the NY Genome Center and Rockefeller University to Conduct a Genome and RNA Sequencing Study to Better Understand COVID-Related Illnesses in Children Hospitals Have Reported 73 Cases of COVID-Related Illness in Children ...

Bayer today announced the launch of Test4TRK™ program in collaboration with NeoGenomics, Inc. to offer genomic cancer testing for NTRK gene fusions at no cost for patients with RAI-refractory (RAI-R) differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) and metastatic...

Scientists at New York City’s health department have begun to analyze the novel coronavirus’s genetic material to allow them to trace the origins of any...