Mendelspod Podcast
Episodes
The History of mRNA Vaccines with Elie Dolgin
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Scientists have been putting RNA into cells through a lipid delivery system for 44 years,” says Elie Dolgin. “And that’s ultimately the vaccine...
Hundreds of Thousands of Biological Molecules Undiscovered in Plant Chemical Space Says Founder of New Drug Discovery Company
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Why do plants make a host of chemicals they don’t use? One answer that has always intrigued me is that, unlike us, they can’t walk up and walk...
Quantitative Pathology with David Rimm, Yale
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Rimm, Professor of Pathology at Yale, was doing spatial biology since before it was called that. He’s known for counting. And he’s been go...
The State of Comprehensive Genomic Profiling at One of America’s Largest Health Systems with Carlo Bifulco
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Carlo Bifulco joins us today. He’s an Italian who helped persuade one of America’s largest not-for-profit health systems that providing more geno...
Inside the World of Genome Engineering at Amyris with Kirsten Benjamin, VP of R&D
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If a company knows genome engineering, that would be Emeryville based Amyris, the Bay Area's crown jewel for synthetic biology. Founded back in 2003,...
Clinical Genetics 2021 Highlights: Laura Hercher, Host of the Beagle Landed Podcast
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Hercher, host of our sister podcast, The Beagle Has Landed, joins us today to compare notes. Her gig is much more focused on the clinical side o...
A New Way to Phenotype Life: Chris Mason Talks Spatial Biology, His New Book
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Mason, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and prolific genomics researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins us to talk about what he’s doi...
The Impact of Spatial Technology on Childhood Cancers with David Steffin, Texas Children's
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Steffin is a cancer researcher and physician at Texas Children's whose particular focus is on pediatric cancers. He begins today’s program wit...
Robert Green: Newborn Sequencing Is the Goal Here in the U.S.
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If you go to a scientific meeting, even with the greatest critics, and you ask, how many people in this audience believe that your entire genome will...
The Studies Are In—Optical Mapping Can Replace Traditional Cytogenetics Tests
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re all aware of the way that next gen sequencing has changed many tests in the clinical laboratory. But some testing has held stubbornly resista...
Amy Sturm of Geisinger on FH Testing and New Implementation Science
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"We have all of these evidence based tools and evidence based methods, but the problem is it can take upwards of 20 plus years to be truly implemented...
Out of the Reductionist Trap: Brad Gray of NanoString on Spatial Biology
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the hottest new trends in biomedical research today is what is known as spatial biology--the ability to capture tissues in a 3D context. It was...
Precision Oncology at the Community Level with Lee Schwartzberg
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Lee Schwartzberg did his training as an oncologist some thirty years ago at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York, he had a dream. And after trai...
Daniel Kraft on the Digitome and COVID
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The new drug is the engaged individual,” says today’s guest, Daniel Kraft.Daniel is the founder of Exponential Medicine where he has championed...
Orchid Health Is 1st in the World to Offer Whole Genome Couple's Report
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
First comes love, then comes marriage; then comes the genomic couple's report. Isn't that how the line goes?Perhaps that's a how it will begin to go...
PacBio and Labcorp Team Up on a Global Pan-Pathogen Surveillance Network
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will there be a fourth surge of COVID here in the U.S.? Already that we’re asking the question and it’s not an inevitability is a good sign. It’...
Will High Sensitivity Proteomics Enable a New Paradigm in Precision Health? with Kevin Hrusovsky, Quanterix
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Hrusovosky’s career has been dedicated to transforming medicine from reactive “sick care” to preventative personalized care. A serial ent...
A Liquid Biopsy Technology that Doesn't Degrade the Sample: Raj Krishnan of Biological Dynamics
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Raj Krishnan has a good story, and probably a good product. More data will tell. He's the CEO of Biological Dynamics, a new liquid biopsy company th...
The Future of Big Biology: Bionano at AGBT
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mendelspod was live this week at AGBT 2021 where Theral interviewed CEO Erik Holmlin and CMO Alka Chaubey of Bionano Genomics on Tuesday. The topic w...
Playing Catch Up--Viral Surveillance in the U.S. with Will Lee of Helix
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How fast is the coronavirus mutating? Why is the U.K. variant, or B.1.1.7, more transmissible than original strains of the virus? Is viral surveill...
The Coronavirus, A Year On with Carl Zimmer
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a year since the coronavirus breached American shores. Here to look back with some perspective is New York Times science writer, Carl Zimm...
Spatial Biology Enables The Cancer Immunome Project
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all heard of and perhaps worked with data from The Cancer Atlas Project. Now, with the help of new spatial biology tools, researchers at the ...
The CRISPR Saga with Kevin Davies
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A discovery here. A paper there. An important paper gets passed over. A fortuitous encounter in a coffee shop among two ambitious scientists. A yogurt...
PacBio’s Never Been Stronger: New CEO, Christian Henry, Shares His Vision
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of the year, we were all holding our breath for the future of PacBio. And by all, I mean all. It seems everyone has been rooting fo...
Keith Robison on the State of Sequencing: 2020 Edition
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We speak directly with the Oracle today. It's Keith Robison, blogger at Omics Omics. Your All Knowingness, we ask, what has happened in the world o...
Halloween with Nathan and Laura: The Spooky and Creepy of Genomics
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our October Review show is a Halloween special this year. Join us around the campfire amidst the sounds of howling wolves as Nathan, Laura, and Count...
When and Why Whole Genome Sequencing Should Be Standard of Care: Stephen Kingsmore of Rady Children’s
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There’s an urgency about Stephen Kingsmore. Which is not to say he’s in a rush.He’s the CEO of the Rady’s Children’s Genomics Institute. H...
Limited Genetic Diversity Affects Us All
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Diversity’s in the news these days. It's not just political correctness. Let’s look deeper into our field at how limited diversity in genetics is ...
Genomics England Making Significant Strides in System Built on Trust in NHS
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“In an era where we look at these surveys about trust and everything’s going off the cliff, everyone still trusts the NHS. It’s so deep in the...
September 2020 Review with Nathan and Laura: Vaccine Choice, Dwarfism, Research Volunteerism
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We take a deep dive into a core genomics question that is somewhat philosophical today: “what is a disease, or disability?” This month we heard ab...
Bob Nussbaum on the State of Genetic Testing: 2020 Edition
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From a career at NIH where he was Chief of the Genetic Disease Branch to academic Chief of Medical Genetics at UCSF to his current business title of C...
SynBioBeta 2020 with John Cumbers
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Synthetic biology was surging like perhaps no other bio-based industry when the pandemic struck, and it has had some unique weapons in its arsenal for...
Mapping Intracellular Context: Garry Nolan on Spatial Biology
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
First it was all about biomarkers. Then panels of biomarkers. But biology is complicated. Why does one patient respond to an immuno therapy when anoth...
August 2020 Review: Radical Shift on LDT Policy, First Pan-Cancer Liquid Biopsies, and New Alzheimer’s Test
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After a long break, the world's first genomics pundits are back for the season. And they are calm and collected in the face of the strorm on Pennsylv...
Using CRISPR Genome Editing Tools, Willow Biosciences out with First Synthetic Cannabinoid
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We see this new ingredient appearing advertised and in products everywhere. On the billboards, in the new shops next to our favorite restaurant, on t...
The Pros and Cons of Expanded Carrier Screening with Mary Norton, UCSF
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Norton is a perinatologist and clinical geneticist at UCSF who says that in the age when we are diagnosing ever more rare diseases, adding to the...
Is This A Unique Time for Science? We Ask Sci-fi Writer Kim Stanley Robinson
13 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Has this pandemic presented a unique moment for science in our history? Or is it just a strange and temporary moment of science fiction? Or both?Sci-f...
May 2020 with Nathan and Laura: Vaccine News, Notre Dame Argument, COVID Genetic Targets
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy summertime! We had positive news this month about an mRNA vaccine from Moderna. We also saw how during a pandemic, the process of science is esp...
Matt Loose on "Read Until" or Adaptive Sequencing
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Back before the world turned upside down, you know, all those years ago--early this February--a paper popped up on bioRxiv called, “Nanopore adapti...
The Current State of Coronavirus Vaccines with Jeff Stein, Cidara Therapeutics
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the key to getting a coronavirus vaccine? “Manufacturing,” says today’s guest, Jeff Stein of Cidara Therapeutics.Jeff joined us just la...
April 2020 Review with Nathan and Laura: Ioannidis Scandal, Antibody Testing, Ethics Questions
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our commentators, Nathan Pearson of Root and Laura Hercher of Sarah Laurence College, join us to look back on month two of the first modern pandemic.W...
Lab Director Speaks to the Challenges of COVID-19 Testing: Elaine Lyon, HudsonAlpha
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why have diagnostic tests for the Coronavirus been slow on the scene? What have been the challenges for lab directors? Were they scientific? Were t...
FDA in the Time of Coronavirus: Understanding the New VALID Act with Turna Ray, GenomeWeb
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After the virus reached American shores, was the FDA quick enough to allow companies and labs to develop their own tests without restrictive oversight...
March 2020 Review with Nathan & Laura: Corona Gets Personal, Where Are the Tests?, the VALID Act, Some non-Corona Science
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laura comes to us from her flat in New York, Nathan is stuck in San Diego, but they are here and ready to discuss what a month ago was a warning and n...
90% Go Undiagnosed, Says Geisinger’s Amy Sturm of FH Patients
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More than one in two hundred people have an inherited form of heart disease. But most don’t know it.Often on Mendelspod we talk about cancer genom...
Lisa Alderson on Her Telegenetics Firm, Genome Medical, Also Speaks to the DTC Downturn
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Alderson has been helping to build genetic testing companies for a while. In 2016 she co-founded her own company, Genome Medical, a tele-genomic...
February 2020 Review with Nathan and Laura: Coronavirus, Medicare for All, and Live from AGBT
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do we actually know about the novel coronavirus, we ask our two monthly commentators at the outset of February’s review show. Then, speaking o...
Pouria Sanae on the DTC Slowdown and His New Precision Health Testing Platform
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“To be fully honest, I think some of these tests are scary tests. I’ve had the luxury of testing myself . . . some of this needs to have the phys...
January 2020 Review: Genetic Counselors vs ACMG, 23andMe Layoffs, Privacy
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
23andMe lays off over 100 employees. Illumina comes to the JP Morgan empty-handed. Has Precision Medicine seen it’s heyday already? Or are we gea...
End-of-Decade Review, What's Next? with Nathan and Laura
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's our special look back over the entire decade which has Nathan and Laura firing on all fours. Not only do we discover their genomic highlights of...
Ewan Birney on Race, UK Genomics
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our end-of-year special guest is one of the U.K.’s top genomicists, Ewan Birney, Co-Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute at EMBL. He i...
November 2019 with Nathan and Laura: Happy Birthday CRISPR Babies, 23andMe for Embryo Selection, and Golden Rice, Almost
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The gene edited babies, Lulu and Nana, turn one. Laura Hercher says it feels like it’s been five years. Nathan says, “Happy Birthday.”Along wi...
Learning from the Field's Mistakes, Ancestry.com Rolls out Physician Ordered Health Testing
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Just in time for Black Friday, Ancestry.com has launched new health testing. Thanksgiving week (the company calls the shopping holidays the “Turk...
The Gene Edited Babies Saga - A Year Later with Hank Greely
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On November 25th, 2018, the world was shocked to find out a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, had edited the germline of twin girls-and the twins had bee...
Improving Quantitative Evidence for Genetic Tests: Carlos Araya, Invitae
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: the first part of this story can sound quite typical. Three co-founders with backgrounds in genomics and AI found a Stanford spinout. Thei...
The Meteoric Rise of Twist Bioscience and the Wild Demand for DNA: Emily Leproust, CEO
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2013 Twist Bioscience was a newcomer to a market that most of us thought was saturated, cornered, commoditized—that of synthetic DNA. But Emily ...
October 2019 Review with Nathan and Laura: Prime Editing, Vertex Win, and ASHG
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our Halloween show this year summarizing October’s genomics news has more tricks and treats than spooks and scares. It’s Nathan and Laura back to...
Should We Increase Panel Testing for All Breast Cancer Patients?
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a hot question in the field today. Recently several studies arguing for increased testing for all breast cancer patients have been published i...
Genomics Going from a Passive to an Active Science: John Stuelpnagel on the “Write” Revolution
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Not many people have had quite the same view on the genomics revolution as John Stuelpnagel. He co-founded Illumina, Ariosa, and Fabric Genomics (for...
Why Isn’t Personalized Medicine Being Mentioned by the Presidential Contenders? Ed Abrahams on Drug Pricing, Genetic Testing, and the State of the Industry in 2019
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Abrahams has a message for Nancy Pelosi about HR 3. That’s the new bill in the House to reduce drug pricing.Ed is the President of the Personali...
Karen Miga on the Next Era of Genomics
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Welcome to the era of T2T genomics,” tweeted UCSC’s Karen Miga on August 16th of this year. Then she linked to a paper on bioRxiv that begins:"A...
September 2019 Review with Nathan and Laura: Same-Sex Genetics, Mosquitos, and Another DTC Scandal
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After the summer break, Nathan and Laura, stir from their beach slumbers, to again offer their anything but sleepy opinions on the latest genomics hea...
We Can See Tumor Heterogeneity. Now What? We Ask Cathy Smith, UCSF
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy Smith counts herself among the Gleevec Generation after the landmark targeted cancer therapy. She’s an optimist who believes in the possibili...
Hallelujah! A Universal Flu Preventative and Therapy with Jeff Stein, Cidara
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As another summer winds down, another flu season approaches. Yuuuk. When will we be able to stop living in fear of that crowded plane flight in wint...
'The Movement:' John Cumbers Previews the Rapidly Growing SynBioBeta 2019
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Synthetic biology is experiencing a second renaissance and the place to be this October 1-3 is at the SynBioBeta conference in San Francisco.For those...
Anya Prince on Our Current Vulnerability to Genetic Discrimination
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Some Americans still resist genetic testing for fear they will be discriminated against by insurance companies. Why?in 2008, Congress passed GINA, th...
Do Long Reads Hold Answers for Alzheimer’s? with Mark Ebbert, Mayo
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the kind of plot that makes great science.There are genes that have been hiding in plain sight, undetected until now. They’ve gone unseen, t...
With Nanopore Sensing Beyond Sequencing, Ontera Takes 'Lab' to the Field
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve interviewed several CEOs over the years since the Theranos fiasco who avoided any mention of the blighted company whenever the comparison came...
Mark Chaisson on Two New Structural Variation Papers
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re not on the long read sequencing train, you’re not landing in the world of genomics.A new paper out begins, "Structural variants contribu...
Early Cancer Detection: Is This Company Ahead of Grail?
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The great promise of liquid biopsy technology is in early cancer detection. That is, it's the great future promise. Right? This past month at th...
June 2019 Review with Nathan and Laura: Gene Patents, Grail, Dr. Lynch
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan and Laura join Theral for our final review show before the summer break. Have you already headed out on vacation? Take us along and stay curr...
Should Genomic Screening Be Standard of Care? with Adam Buchanan, Geisinger
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Those of us watching every shift in the level of adoption of genomic medicine have our eyes closely glued to Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania.A...
May 2019 Review with Nathan and Laura: Gene Therapies, DTC Shifts, Gender and Sports
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our two reigning champions are back for a month packed with news. It’s Nathan Pearson of Root and Laura Hercher of Sarah Laurence College and Host ...
Toward the Human Pan Genome with Adam Phillippy, NHGRI
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Storylines repeat in genome science every decade or so. The human genome is complete. No. Now it's complete. Or, in the 90's, it was first announc...
Laura Hercher on the DTC Genetic Testing Landscape
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"DTC is now too big of an arena to put everything in the same bucket.”This was a line from Laura Hercher, one of our monthly commentators a couple...
Arcadia Biosciences Pivots to Bring Us Non-GMO, High Fiber GoodWheat and Better Cannabis
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're joined by Matt Plavan, President of Arcadia Specialty Genomics.The last time we talked with someone from Arcadia Bioscience, a biotech com...
April 2019 Review with Nathan and Laura: uBiome Raided by FBI, PRS for Obesity, and a Gene Therapy Cure
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
April was a tough month for some genomics companies. The FBI raided the offices of uBiome and two other pioneers in the field failed. Are there broa...
The Era of the Social Genome with Rodrigo Martinez, Veritas Genetics
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two years ago Veritas Genetics began offering whole genome sequencing for a thousand dollars. It was a significant milestone—and still is!—not onl...
Reassessing Alzheimer’s with Larry Goldstein, UCSD
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There are drug trial failures. And there are drug trial failures.The recent move by drug giant Biogen to halt their Alzheimer’s drug has not only b...
Family Surprises Care of the Home DNA Test with Brianne Kirkpatrick
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You order a $99 home DNA test for some holiday pleasure. It’s a bit of fun. Right?Until it turns your life upside down. Which is when you contact...
March 2019 with Nathan and Laura: Old Envelopes, Wooly Mammoth DNA, and the Night King
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From recovering DNA on hundred year old envelopes to bringing it to life from 28,000 year old wooly mammoth samples, it's our genomics version of Marc...
Single Cell Analysis Shows Important New Detail in Key Clinical Study of AML: Koichi Takahashi, MD Anderson
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The history of biomedicine goes something like this:A new tool is invented. 2. New tool is used in research labs to generate new data and new hypoth...
Science Communication in a Post Fact World with Erik Clausen
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"That’s fake news!”We hear it all the time. And often it is said about scientific facts, for example, recent studies or evidence of global warmin...
February 2019 Review with Nathan and Laura: Family Surprises, IQ Profiling, and Chinese Surveillance
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our two favorite commentators are back for our February 2019 month-in-review show, and to give our own twist to Valentine's Day celebrations we take o...
Heretic No Longer? Meet Michael Joyner, Precision Medicine’s Critic-in-Chief
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, after President Obama announced the Cancer Moonshot in the State of the Union, a very outspoken physician researcher from the Mayo Clinic pe...
The Internet of Biology Revolution-For Real This Time, with Brett Goldsmith, Cardea
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Talk to anyone who’s been around diagnostics or blood sampling for long, and they’ll tell you that nanotechnology is nothing new.Today’s guest, ...
January 2019 Review with Nathan and Laura: Cloning, CRISPRing, DTC, and Paleogenomic Overreach
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan and Laura are back for the first time this year for a wild trip past cloned CRISPRd monkeys and the first gene drive in mammals. (Just that?) ...
Cara O'Neill of the Cure Sanfilippo Foundation Tells Her Story
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You’re a mother, and life is typical. You’re also a pediatrician. Then one day you hear that your daughter is autistic. OK. Then you get the n...
PregSource: The NIH’s Crowdsourcing Project for Pregnancy Data with Caroline Signore
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There are hundreds of pregnancy apps available. So what is unique about the NIH’s new crowdsourcing project called PregSource?“We think PregSource...
Meet Christian, Janos, and the New World of 3D Oncology
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we engage in a rare discussion between a startup founder who is going beyond sequencing and working directly with cancer patient cells in 3D cul...
Has Computational Modeling for Cancer Genomics "Arrived?" with Shirley Liu, Dana Farber
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the question of the moment Are we living in the age of AI? Or is it still just hype?When it comes to the latest research in immuno therapy, c...
Amy Harmon of the NYT on Race & Genetics, Women in Science
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of the year, we like to speak with a journalist who covers genetics about some of their stories. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
CRISPR or Not, You Can't Genetically Enhance Humans, Says Sci-Fi Author Kim Stanley Robinson
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Designer babies. The term means many things to many people. To some it means kids only dressed in Gucci.Some say that by doing pre-implantation gene...
The New World of Infectious Disease Diagnosis: Out in the Field with David Hong of Karius
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A one month old baby is admitted to a hospital with fever. This is cause for serious alarm. The child is put on broad spectrum antibiotics. The inf...
California Life Science Industry Steps to New Heights - the 2019 Edition with Sara Radcliffe
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Radcliffe can be happy--extra happy. She is the CEO of the California Life Sciences Association at a time when the state is breaking records, be...
Nathan and Laura on CRISPRed Babies and Other November 2018 Stories
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What a week! And a great time to have on our expert contributors, genomicist Nathan Pearson and genetic counselor Laura Hercher, to talk about what i...
Ellen Matloff on a New Digital Genetic Counseling Product for DTC Customers
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If Mendelspod had an annual Product of the Year award, we'd certainly be liking for 2018 the one featured today, a digital genetic counseling product ...
Connecting the Dots for a Community of Rare Disease Patients: Terri Klein, MPS Society
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The MPS Society is a rare organization. Not just because it is an umbrella for the rare diseases that have in common lysosomal storage malfunction. ...
Keith Robison and Shawn Baker on Illumina Buyout of PacBio
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Just hours after Illumina announced their buyout of Pacific Biosciences, Theral sits down with longtime sequencing Omics Omics blogger, Keith Robison,...
October 2018 Review with Nathan and Laura: ASHG Does Race, Parents Do Gene Therapy, Unsung Demons
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As an election nears, the question of race and genetics has been front and center. It even prompted ASHG to take the unusual step of making a group w...