Flashcard Fridays – Personalized medicine

One of the “big things” we hope to achieve in the near future with the help of next generation sequencing (and other modern laboratory and diagnostic methods) is personalized medicine. If you”re not familiar with the term, check out this Wikipedia article. Very briefly, personalized medicine (or PM) includes...

 

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Flashcard Fridays – Another one bites the dust – Roche 454 shut down

After shutting down all their NGS research programmes in April, Roche announced this week that they”re discontinuing the 454 sequencers. Although there are a lot of 454 sequencers in use all around the world and production/support will not completely stop until 2016, based on how fast SOLiD disappeared, 454...

 

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Flashcard Fridays – Seeing the invisible

October is Blindness Awareness Month. (Don’t forget that World Sight Day is coming up next week!) Also, in a way, next generation sequencing (and sequencing, in general) is all about making invisible information “perceivable”, so I thought it would be a good idea to collect some articles about what...

 

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