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In Cambridge, United Kingdom, Illumina champions STEM education opportunities with local students NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / April 29, 2024 / Illumina Originally published on Illumina News Center On April 25, Illumina opened its doors in Granta Park, Cambridge, to celebrate DNA Day. This annual event marks a significant milestone in the history of science: the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the groundbreaking discovery of DNA's double helix structure by James...

What kind of opportunities can an engineer find through their work? Plenty, at Illumina! One employee shares how she makes a difference. Originally published on Illumina News Center NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / April 18, 2024 / Inside a lab that is off-limits to most employees, Staff Engineer Allie Duchnak coordinates hundreds of details for highly confidential projects. Based at Illumina's San Diego headquarters, her interdisciplinary team, Advanced Platforms, builds test beds for components...

The Medical Genome Initiative presents a paper in an effort to expand patient access to sequencing Originally published on Illumina News Center NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / April 17, 2024 / A recent literature review, published in the Nature journal Genomic Medicine , showed that short-read genomic sequencing (GS) reduces the time it takes to diagnose and treat pediatric patients who may have a rare genetic condition. This evidence supports efforts to make GS the first-line standard of care,...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / April 5, 2024 / Illumina The adoption of WGS in precision oncology is on the rise. Plus: the promise of MRD Originally published on Illumina News Center Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) use is more established for rare and pediatric disease, but next-generation sequencing in clinical use for cancer consists of various approaches. In the last two decades since a targeted therapy was first approved for the EGFR mutation, comprehensive genomic profiling, or CGP , has...

Illumina Genomic Discoveries helps high school students learn about genomic sequencing with a Lab-in-a-Box NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / April 2, 2024 / Illumina Originally published on Illumina News Center Next-generation sequencing (NGS) provides amazing insights into health care, agriculture, food safety, and many other disciplines, making it increasingly essential for students to have access to this technology to enhance their career options. To make that happen, the Illumina Genomic...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / March 18, 2024 / Illumina: At Galatea Bio, Carlos D. Bustamante enriches the diversity of genomic datasets and brings precision medicine to underserved populations Originally published on Illumina News Center In the early days of the pandemic, personal and professional aspects of Carlos D. Bustamante's life were converging. His daughter had just fallen ill with a post-infectious condition at a time when he was partnering with a team at Stanford University to study...

Illumina scientists tailor-made research solutions for detecting genes in difficult-to-read regions that cause both common and rare diseases Originally published on Illumina News Center NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / March 8, 2024 / When scientists want to sequence a DNA sample on an Illumina system, they don't try to read all 4 billion base pairs of the genome at once. Instead, they slice the DNA into short fragments of about 500 base pairs that are easier to work with and faster to read. DNA...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / March 7, 2024 / Illumina WorldFish and the Earlham Institute are using genomics to improve tilapia for the sake of global food sustainability Originally published on Illumina News Center The United Nations projects that the total human population will exceed 9 billion by 2040. Feeding that many people will demand advances in sustainable farming, especially in aquaculture. John Benzie, PhD, Karim Gharbi, PhD, and Tarang Mehta, PhD, recently spoke with Illumina about...