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BugSeq’s Innovative Approaches to Virus Detection

Tonight I continued watching the ONT webinar on advances in genomic profiling of respiratory viral pathogens. The second speaker was Nick Gauthier from BugSeq. The title of their session was “Translating metagenomics to the clinic.” The BugSeq team is working to develop clinical metagenomic pathogen agnostic approaches. BugSeq started working on an ONT mNGS platform […]
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Panel Discussion on Genomics: Advancements in Rare Disease Detection

Tonight, I continued watching the London Calling 2024 Clinical & Biopharma Day on Friday, May 24, 2024. I continued watching the expert panel on “Rare diseases reimagined: genomics in early detection and precision therapies,” which I started watching last night. Nabihah Sachedina, the VP of Health Programs with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) moderated the session. Paul Arvidson from Genomics […]
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Boxwood Blight Detection

Marcela Aguilera Flores from Virginia Tech presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2019 on “Culture-free detection of boxwood blight to improve disease diagnosis and prevention.” Aguilera Flores spoke about the use of the MinION for metagenomics to detect the fungi that cause blight in the boxwood. According to Aguilera Flores, boxwood is an important ornamental […]
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