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We are on the brink of a breakthrough and there is new hope for families facing rare and undiagnosed genetic diseases. The value of a definitive diagnosis stops the guessing, grows our understanding...
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Illumina Accelerator is all about driving value for genomics startups. Hear from entrepreneurs from our 6th and 7th funding cycles and get insight into their experiences working with genomics experts...
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Katie Lendrum shares her personal journey of deciding to have a child after her husband, David, who was diagnosed with motor-neuron disease (MND), also referred to as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,...
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The clear majority of the Human Genome is non-coding. Although those billions of bases do not specifically encode genes, there are many hidden sequences whose job is to dial up and dial down the activity...
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Description: Illumina employees visited 3rd graders at Avocado Elementary in the Cajon Valley Union School District of San Diego, CA. Employees shared about the basics of genomics and showed students...
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One hypothesis regarding the origin of life is that it might have originated in ancient hot springs, or, as Darwin claimed, in some “warm little pond”. While there is yet no real consensus on how life...
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In 2014, the world’s eyes were pointed towards West Africa, where an Ebola outbreak was claiming the lives of thousands of people, including caregivers and laboratory workers. However, long before that,...
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Our daily activities and agriculture can take a heavy toll on our environment. Dr. Sharon Doty, from the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington, hopes to use plant-microbe...