What’s been going on in the life sciences world this week? Check out Week in Brief for an overview of the biggest news.

We’re pleased to announce that registration is now open for The Festival of Genomics, Biodata & AI in Boston this June.

This article was first published in Decemebr 2023. Multi-omics integration has evolved into a central pillar of precision medicine, drug discovery, and translational research. As datasets grow in ...

Two things that have defined the 21 st century are genomics and the internet. Through a combination of these has emerged a controversial type of ‘influencer’ on the internet – self-gene-editors or ...

The idea that the experiences of our ancestors shape who we are today is not a novel one. In fact, throughout history, great thinkers from around the world have proposed theories and ideas to explain ...

Illumina’s systems employ short-read sequencing techniques, which has been the predominant NGS technology for the last decade. The company has made huge advances in the NGS space and now markets a ...

New research has uncovered the function of red blood cells as immune sensors that detect and bind to cell-free DNA present during sepsis. Red blood cells (RBCs) comprise the majority of circulating ...

Nucleic acid sequencing has become an integral part of modern biomedical research. The advances in sequencing technology, from its invention to modern-day equivalents, have been extraordinary. 2022 ...

Since the discovery of the basic double-helix structure of DNA In the 1950’s, scientists have devoted a huge amount of effort to determine the sequence of a variety of different genomics. It took over ...

Welcome back to Week in Brief! The first week of 2024 has been packed full of exciting new developments – let’s take a look below.

Written by Arpita Kulkarni (Director of the Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Core at HMS/BIDMC). Across the life sciences, a quiet anxiety is growing: what is the role of the experimental ...