2021 – A True Testimony that we Sit at The Intersection of Significant New Opportunities The significant opportunities at the intersection of biology, technology, and big data and the advancements resulting from...read more
Features and insights
Patient-Centric Rare Disease Genome Maps Join The Web
For far too long, rare disease patients and their guardians have had to wait “forever” for genetic information to be returned back to them. All of that is about to change: thanks to the convergence of mapping...read more
Bionano Genomics Acquiring BioDiscovery – The Perfect Alignment of the Stars
One of October’s headlines in the field of genomics and genetics included the acquisition of BioDiscovery by Bionano Genomics. I spoke with Soheil Shams, President, Founder, and CSO of BioDiscovery and now Chief...read more
Scientific Integrity: A Coincidental Encounter
I recently interviewed the Dutch scientist, Dr. Elisabeth Bik, a microbiome and science integrity consultant. After years of working as a research associate at Stanford University and as the scientific editorial...read more
The Much Needed Narrative Behind Recent Female Representation Among Nobel Laureates
Why I, as an undergraduate student studying science, enjoyed this conversation In Illumina’s SPARK 2021 Conference (April 26-27, 2021), Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna discuss the joys, challenges, and ethics of gene...read more
Enlightenbio Releases New Report: Warehousing Clinical & Genomics Biomedical Data – A Needs & Challenges Analysis Report
New, critical, investigative, and qualitative report analyzes the observations and learnings across the complex components of biomedical data warehousing, querying, and collaboration. Palo Alto, CA, May 13...read more
COVID-19 – Viral Vector Versus mRNA Vaccines
In January this year, we published a blog that covered the development of the first two COVID-19 vaccines that were given emergency use authorization (EUA) (The Promise and Hope of RNA-based vaccines for COVID-19), and...read more
AGBT 2021 – A Virtual Summary with Spatial Profiling Dominating
AGBT 2021 took place virtually this year! But the conference was nevertheless the attention grabber of the week with a twitter storm, active reporting, and several commercial product launches as demonstrated by a slew...read more
Enlightenbio Releases New Clinical Genomics Report: The Interplay Between Clinical Research & Clinical Diagnostics
New, qualitative report provides an in-depth analysis across the complex, multi-step clinical genomics data process, including genomic data generation and analysis, data flow, and data warehousing. Palo Alto, CA...read more
2020 Was Not Just About COVID-19
Certainly, the coronavirus and, with that COVID-19, has dominated 2020 and massively impacted not only our daily lives, but also the medical health care community and healthcare facilities in particular. Genomics proved...read more
