ASHG Notebook: seqWell's ONT Library Prep
<div>seqWell CSO Joe Mellor gave me a quick tour of their new transposase library prep product for Oxford Nanopore sequencers. Since the early days of ONT, users have had two basic choices for genome ...
New marker panel and web tool help define early human cell fates
Researchers developed 67 validated gene markers and DeepDiff, a web-based tool that uses RNA sequencing data to identify early human stem cell differentiation states......
RNA sequencing reveals molecular changes driving right ventricular heart failure
Researchers combined bulk and single-nucleus RNA sequencing with spatial transcriptomics to identify cellular changes driving right ventricular heart failure and potential therapeutic targets......
Anthropic is not pitching Normal Technology
Anthropic’s S-1 prospectus describes ambitions for biology that go well beyond helping scientists write code and summarize papers....
Microsoft Deserves Nobel Prize for AI Diagonosis Paper
<p>I will start with an apology to the readers. My original title was “AI Will Not Replace Human Doctors”, but then I immediately realized that the Google bots would censor negative titles about this ...
ASHG Notebook: Bruker PaintScape Illustrates Chromosome Architecture
I spent last week at ASHG in beautiful Montreal. I've scribbled many notes in my notebook, and am planning to emit a series of pieces each focused on a single topic. Some of these may be brief, but ...
Let's talk about AI review
<p>In November 2025, the company behind the <a href="https://www.pangram.com/">Pangram</a> AI detector published a <a href="https://www.pangram.com/blog/pangram-predicts-21-of-iclr-reviews-are-ai-gene...
Researchers Develop AI Tool to Map MicroRNA Binding Sites on Circular RNAs
Researchers developed circMAC, an AI tool that predicts microRNA binding sites on circular RNAs, complementing RNA sequencing......
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the diversity of human neutrophils across health and disease
Neutrophils are the most abundant type of white blood cell in the human bloodstream and play a critical role in protecting the body against infections. These immune cells are among the first to respon...
Podcast Recommendations Oct 2026
Down to a Science, UVA SDS Data Points, AI Exchange at UVA. One episode recommendation from each....