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Clinical Labs and Whole Human Gene Sequencing
CLINICAL LABORATORY ADMINISTRATORS AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES would be well advised to pay close attention to our lead story about the whole human genome sequence collaboration just announced by the pathology department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and GenomeQue…
“Primary-Care Pathology” One Goal at Beth Israel
CEO SUMMARY: In a pioneering collaboration, the pathology department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, will work with GenomeQuest, Inc., to perform whole genome sequencing of tumor specimens. GenomeQuest will handle sequencing, assembly, and annota…
June 21, 2010 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Early in June, exactly 96 customers of 23andMe, Inc., were notified that they had received the wrong genetic test results. It was particularly bad timing, since the company had just been sent a letter from the FDA asserting its authority to regulate genetic testing. Bloggers reported…
2009’s Top Ten Lab Stories Reflect Some Good, Bad
CEO SUMMARY: As the closing year of the first decade of the new century and the new millennium, 2009 brought neither disruption nor upheaval to the majority of laboratories in the United States. Rather, it was marked by at least two themes. One was how public disclosure of problems with l…
Costs Falling Swiftly for Whole Genome Sequence
CEO SUMMARY: Several companies want to be first to achieve the holy grail in sequencing: an accurate whole human genome sequence produced in an hour for $1,000. Complete Genomics announced earlier this month that it could sequence the full human genome for a materials cost of $4,400 (not …
Genome Sequencing Promises to be Disruptive
EVERYONE SHOULD CAREFULLY READ OUR LEAD STORY ON THE FACING PAGE. Titled “Rapid Gene Sequencing Predicted by Mid-2009,” it is a revealing look at the declaration of California-based Complete Genetics that, in less than eight months, it will begin delivering full human genome sequ…
Rapid Genome Sequencing Predicted by Mid-2009
CEO SUMMARY: In the same way that the Human Genome Project was disrupted by the entry of C. Craig Venter and Perkin-Elmer in what was then a 15-year, $3 billion project, now Complete Genetics of Mountain View, California, is disrupting the race to the $1,000 human genome sequence. Develop…
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