Tonight I watched Gabriel Griffin, Assistant Professor, Dana-Faber Cancer Institute present an Oxford Nanopore Technology session titled “Rapid epigenomic classification of acute leukemia with long-read sequencing.” Griffin spoke about leukemia diagnosis requiring multiple steps and time: morphology, flow cytometry, immuno histochemistry stains, targeted sequencing, and cytogenetics. This can take up to fourteen days. Griffin and […]
Fei Xiao from the Beijing Hospital in China presented at London Calling 2023 a lightning talk on “Small extrachromosomal circular DNAs as biomarkers for potential pan-cancer diagnosis and prognosis.” Xiao noted that extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) are circular DNA molecules that are independent of conventional chromosomes and most are smaller than 10 kb. The study […]