Wednesday Web Watch
January 11, 2017 What will you be able to get (soon…maybe) for one hundred bucks? According to Meghana Keshavan, your whole, entire genome sequence via Illumina’s NovaSeq technology. While the machine has the ability to spit out information in about one hour, its interpretation will take a bit longer. Illumina continues to innovate with regard to personalized medicine technology, promoting early illness […]
Infant DNA Sequencing: Worth It?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching a five-year, 25M project to determine whether DNA sequencing in newborns should replace the current “heel stick” blood test. The heel stick test screens for up to 31 health conditions out of a possible 8,000 or so. The NIH genomic study will involve approximately 2000 infants from […]