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Read More »India Science Festival names “RNA Sequencing” the Science Word of the Year
The next generation of RNA researchers
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 ...
Read More »FDA emergency use authorized for first hybridization capture-based next-generation sequencing SARS-CoV-2 RNA assay
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...
Read More »UCLA Health scientists pioneer faster and cheaper COVID-19 testing technology
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...
Read More »Single-cell pioneer wins NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, plans to push single-cell technology to the microbial world
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...
Read More »Helix is the first clinical lab to receive approval for a sequencing-based test for the coronavirus
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...
Read More »Joint effort to evaluate WGS and RNA-Seq as a first line diagnostic approach for acute leukemia
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...
Read More »RNA-Seq bioinformatics among the open source software projects awarded funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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 ...
Read More »NY scientists to conduct a genome and RNA sequencing study to better understand COVID-related illnesses in children
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 ...
Read More »Bayer and Neogenomics to provide RNA sequencing-based testing for NTRK gene fusion at no cost for people living with advanced thyroid and colorectal cancers
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...
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