Flashcard Fridays – Personalized medicine

25/10/2013

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 everything...

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

18/10/2013

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 won”t...

Flashcard Fridays – Nobel Prizes 2013

11/10/2013

After “covering” the IgNobel Prizes, I feel it’s my duty to write about the “real thing” as well. So let’s take a look at the scientific Nobel Prize winners of 2013!

Top HLA labs report large-scale NGS adaptation at Registries 2013 conference

07/10/2013

Posted by Attila Berces Cyprus was an ideal site for a conference on marrow donor registries since this country has the highest proportion of its population HLA typed and registered as donors. The importance of this registry was already apparent on the flight to the conference since Cyprus Airways in-flight...

Flashcard Fridays – Seeing the invisible

04/10/2013

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 “hidden...