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from phgfoundation by Rebecca Burbidge UK-based DNA sequencing company Oxford Nanopore has showcased new nanopore sequencing technologies in development. The new technologies previewed at the company’s London Calling event were a new version of MinION to be released in 2016, ...

from GenomeWeb by Monica Heger NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers from Stanford University have modified Illumina’s TruSeq Synthetic Long Read library prep method to work with RNA sequencing and demonstrated that the technique can sequence full-length cDNAs, including previously undescribed ...

from Genetic Engineering News The National Cancer Institute (NCI) led study will investigate the unique molecular indicators of tumors associated with cancer patients with excellent prognosis to drug therapies. The study will include participation from Baylor College of Medicine, Nationwide ...

from the Daily Aztec by Adriana Millar According to a new San Diego State study, the time someone eats may be as important as what he or she eats. The new study, recently published by SDSU researchers and the Salk Institute for Biological ...

UNC sequenced the RNA for 10,000 tumor samples as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas project, a National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute-backed effort to create a comprehensive atlas of the genetic changes in cancer. The UNC ...

From Mlive.com By Sue Thoms GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Somewhere in Lebanon, a child battling an incurable cancer soon will undergo a biopsy. The tumor sample will be shipped by a special courier to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand ...

UCLA biologists take a deep dive into ‘big data’ to research roots of disease By Beau Yarbrough, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin LOS ANGELES >> For centuries, biology was limited by the available tools. Biologists had to be able to collect, ...

from Science World Report by Catherine Griffin It turns out that the squid can actually edit its own genetic makeup on the fly. Scientists have discovered that this animal can modify most of its proteins in order to enable adjustments ...

Next-Generation Single-Cell Technology Published in Science  Palo Alto, Calif., USA – February 5, 2015 – Cellular Research, Inc., today unveiled a new, massively parallel single-cell sequencing technology platform that enables higher-resolution digital biology. Demonstrated in a manuscript published today in ...

Highlights New method improves single-cell genomics analyses; Method clarifies the true differences and similarities between cells by modelling relatedness and removing confounding variables; Scientists can use known molecular pathways to better understand cancer cells, differentiation processes and the pathogenesis of ...