FLICKR, JOHN GOODE

Selections from The Scientist’s reading list:

  • A microfluidic device developed by scientists at Harvard Medical School to cleanse the blood of rats with acute sepsis “is nearing the point where it could be ready for human clinical testing,” MIT Technology Review reported last week (September 18).
  • In a BioRxiv preprint posted last week (September 15), a public-private team led by investigators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, reported reference materials for seven human genomes sequenced using 11 technologies. “[W]e expect these data to be useful for revealing novel information about the human genome and improving sequencing technologies, SNP, indel, and structural variant calling, and de novo assembly,” the team wrote in its manuscript.
  • The Atlantic on Oxford Nanopore Technologies’s MinION: “These devices quite literally bring the power of modern genomics to the palm of your hand. And at a cost...

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