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Transposon insertion profiling by sequencing (TIPseq) for mapping LINE-1 insertions in the human genome

March 2019 Authors: Jared P. Steranka, Zuojian Tang, Mark Grivainis, Cheng Ran Lisa Huang, Lindsay M. Payer, Fernanda O. R. Rego, Thiago Luiz Araujo Miller, Pedro A. F. Galante, Sitharam Ramaswami, Adriana Heguy, David Fenyö, Jef D. Boeke & Kathleen … more »

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Identification of whole blood mRNA and microRNA biomarkers of tissue damage and immune function resulting from amphetamine exposure or heat stroke in adult male rats

February 2019 Authors: Luısa Camacho, Camila S. Silva, Joseph P. Hanig, Robert P. Schleimer, Nysia I. George, John F. Bowyer Info: A report from the USDA and others evaluate the effect of amphetamine and methamphetamine toxicity on immune systems and … more »

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AGBT 2019 Re-Cap

AGBT 2019 was a smashing success this year. Featuring a triumphant return to Marco Island FL with postcard perfect weather, the science was (as usual) top-notch. The renovated Marriott greatly upgraded its conference facilities and added an attractive new tower … more »

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Iso-Seq Allows Genome-Independent Transcriptome Profiling of Grape Berry Development

March 2019 Authors: Andrea Minio, Mélanie Massonnet, Rosa Figueroa-Balderas, Amanda M. Vondras, Barbara Blanco-Ulate, and Dario Cantu Info: Researchers used PacBio’s Iso-Seq method to sequence full-length cDNA transcripts from ripening Cabernet Savignon berries resulting in 1,5000 cultivar-specific genes. The authors … more »

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Cancer stem cell–associated miRNAs serve as prognostic biomarkers in colorectal cancer

March 2019 Authors: Shusuke Toden, Shigeyasu Kunitoshi, Jacob Cardenas, Jinghua Gu, Elizabeth Hutchins, Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen, Hiroyuki Uetake, Yuji Toiyama, and Ajay Goel Info: This study evaluates cancer stems cells (CSC) which resist chemotherapy agents and have high tumor initiation … more »

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Gestational jet lag predisposes to later-life skeletal and cardiac disease

February 2019 Authors: Inês Chaves, Bram van der Eerden, Ruben Boers, Joachim Boers, Astrid A. Streng, Yanto Ridwan, Marijke Schreuders-Koedam, Marijn Vermeulen, Ingrid van der Pluijm, Jeroen Essers, Joost Gribnau, Irwin K. M. Reiss & Gijsbertus T. J. van der … more »

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Linked-Read Sequencing Advances Understanding of Cancers

A new study* from the University of Connecticut Medical School, Jackson Labs, and collaborators demonstrate the utility of using emulsion based linked-read sequencing (10X Genomics) for cancer research. Published in January’s Otology & Neurotology studies patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 … more »

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SageELF Size Selection for PacBio Circular Consensus Sequencing

A new preprint has landed on BioRxiv that reports on high-accuracy circular consensus sequencing (CCS) on the PacBio Sequel. The study, “Highly-accurate long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome”, is authored by PacBio and an impressive … more »

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Enhanced detection of circulating tumor DNA by fragment size analysis

November 2018 Authors: Florent Mouliere et al. Info: This study from Cancer Research UK and a large team of collaborators is a continuation of work evaluating circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and the significance of sub-167 base pair cell-free DNA as … more »

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Small-seq for single-cell small-RNA sequencing

September 2018 Authors: Michael Hagemann-Jensen, Ilgar Abdullayev, Rickard Sandberg and Omid R Faridani Info: A new protocol from researchers at the Karolinska Institutet and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research outline a method for making small RNA sequencing libraries from … more »

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