Tonight I watched the London Calling session on “Rapid nephrogenomics for thrombotic microangiopathies.” Laurent Mesnard from Sorbonne University in France was the presenter. They defined thrombotic microangiopathies (TMA) as a group of rare diseases with similar manifestations. Early diagnosis of TMA is essential. It currently takes about three days to screen. The Regulator of Complement […]
“Robbing the array to feed the pore: exploring ultra-fast brain tumor diagnosis” is the title of the session Dr. Simon Paine from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK presented at London Calling 2024. What a creative title! Paine is a clinical consultant and neuropathologist. Paine explained that neuropathologists are trying to predict tumor […]
Tonight we started our first P2 run with two PromethION flow cells. I also continued watching the London Calling 2023 Showcase Stage on liquid biopsy. I watched them out of order! Today I watched Billy Lau from Stanford University School of Medicine do a quick presentation titled “Nanopore sequencing of cell-free DNA for methylation-based breast […]
I was excited to come across an Oxford Nanopore Technologies YouTube video from London Calling 2022 that included the use of the Flongle! Abigail Stack from Bayer Crop Sciences spoke about “The POREtal to advancing plant diagnostics: Flongle for tomato bacterial race typing and beyond.” Stack started by explaining their role as a plant pathologist […]