A review of the various SARS-CoV-2 Omicron mutations 2021 was the year of multiple variants of concerns (VOCs) starting with the Alpha variant in the UK, which was first detected in November 2020, and spread quickly by...read more
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2021 – Precision Medicine linked with Genomic Medicine: A Work in Progress
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
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
Enabling Precision Medicine: Life (Sciences) in 2030
Just 20 years ago, some expected the human genome to hold all the answers. Instead, we accumulated an almost unlimited backlog of new questions – a direct consequence of the ever-growing interest in unlocking the...read more
A Review of SARS-CoV-2 Variants
In an ideal situation the COVID-19 pandemic would be brought under control by vaccine-induced immune responses in most individuals. The reality that might be achieved is a combination of vaccine-induced and some natural...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
FAIR Data or the Journey Towards Data-Centricity – Pushing Towards Making Data Discoverable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
Data is the blood being pumped through the organism of personalized medicine and will be – as has always been – the key to the identification of novel biomarkers and potential new therapeutics. We have never...read more
The Medical Research Community Has a Duty to Be Racially And Ethnically Inclusive in Their Study Demographics
I am currently a third year undergraduate student at Emory University studying Biology and Religion while on the pre-med track. I am also presently the Digital Marketing and Communications Intern at enlightenbio due to...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
The Promise and Hope of RNA-based vaccines for COVID-19
The worldwide devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic is well known to everyone, as is the resulting push to develop effective vaccines and therapies that have been proceeding on a massive scale and at rapid pace...read more
