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Learning About Long Reads: The PacBio User Group Meeting

This week we’re traveling to Baltimore for the annual east coast user group meeting for Pacific Biosciences customers. We’re a sponsor of the event and look forward to the great scientific presentations these meetings have become known for. Click here … more »

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Modified Mate-Pair Protocol Lowers Cost, Boosts Library Yield

Regular readers of the Sage Science blog know that we can never resist a good methods paper. We enjoyed this publication from the phyloinformatics group at RIKEN detailing a modified protocol for generating high-quality mate-pair libraries while significantly reducing costs. … more »

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NGS Technologies Offer Accurate, Affordable Alternative for HLA Typing

We always knew genomics would have a positive impact on healthcare, but as we were dreaming about tailored therapies, targeted cancer treatments, and preventive medicine based on known susceptibilities, there was one area we didn’t think about: HLA typing. It’s … more »

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New Mendelspod Series Kicks Off with Arizona’s Rod Wing

We’re proud to be sponsoring a new series of podcasts from the great folks at Mendelspod, who have been producing informative interviews with interesting scientists for several years now. We don’t have anything to do with the podcasts themselves, but … more »

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Gearing Up for ASMS 2015

We can’t wait for ASMS, the annual meeting of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. This year, the mega event will be held in St. Louis from May 31st to June 4th and our team will be on the scene … more »

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Come for the Beignets, Stay for the Science

We’re already looking forward to the 115th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. It’ll be held in New Orleans this year from May 30th to June 2nd, giving us a great excuse to stop by Café du Monde … more »

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At Einstein Med School, ‘Extremely Reproducible’ Pippin Platforms Save Time and Money

In the genetics department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Research Assistant Professor Alex Maslov is working to understand structural variants associated with aging and cancer. Using human and mouse cells, he deploys whole genome sequencing to make these links. … more »

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DNA Day Makes Us Feel Like Rock Stars

This year’s DNA Day arrives at a heady time for advances with the world’s most important molecule: scientists have edited DNA in a human zygote for the first time, we’re closer to a fully finished human reference genome than ever … more »

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Video Protocol: NGS-based Methylation Mapping with Pippin Prep

We always love a great protocol video, and this one from scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College, published through the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is a keeper. Check it out here: “Enhanced Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing for Assessment of DNA … more »

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PippinHT in the Wild: High-Throughput ChIP-Seq at Whitehead Core Lab

At the Whitehead Institute’s Genome Technology Core, scientists handle a lot of ChIP-seq and RNA-seq projects. To boost capacity in library prep, they recently upgraded from a small fleet of Pippin Prep instruments to the new PippinHT for high-throughput, automated … more »

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