Tonight, I watched Devin M. Drown from the University of Alaska Fairbanks present on “Testing the MinION Mk1D in Alaska.” Drown is an Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Institute of Arctic Biology Genomics Core. Drown is passionate about training, including doing MinION hackathons. Drown, like me, was excited to test the device. They […]
Stacy L. Springs from the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation presented at the NCM Biopharma Day in Boston on “Application of nanopore long-read sequencing to sterility testing for cell therapy products.” Springs spoke about the diversity of impurities in biological medicines. They spoke about the need for rapid sterility testing in cell therapy manufacturing. Springs […]
Danny E. Miller from the University of Washington spoke at London Calling on the clinical applications of long-read sequencing. The title of this session was “Long-read sequencing as the future of clinical genetic testing.” Miller started with three points. The first was that long-read sequencing will change clinical testing within five years. The second reason […]
Ji Wang from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore this year on “Application and history of nanopore sequencing in helping China’s CDC system.” They described extensive network of the CDC in China with 3,000 units. Wang shared data from a survey of lab […]