April 29, 2013
by Dale Yuzuki
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It was something of a surprise to see Sony exhibit at the AACR meeting, and a bit more of a surprise to see that they have been successful in their quest to diversify out of the CD, DVD and BluRay … Continue reading
April 22, 2013
by Dale Yuzuki
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Earlier this year at the February AGBT Conference, a person from QIAGEN came over to the Ion Torrent suite and asked me a few questions about the Ion Proton and in particular the upcoming Ion Chef unit. (The Ion Chef … Continue reading
April 16, 2013
by Dale Yuzuki
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At last week’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting in Washington D.C., it is the serendipitous discovery from walking around the exhibit hall that gets the creative thinking going. And at such a large venue – there were about … Continue reading
February 22, 2013
by Dale Yuzuki
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This week the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting is being held, as it usually is, in Marco Island Florida. As a Gulf Coast resort area complete with white sand beaches and thatched hut shade, Marco Island … Continue reading
February 21, 2013
by Dale Yuzuki
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A little while ago I spent a few days in a meeting room with several other strangers, taking in wisdom about ‘Effective Executive Presentations’. A few of the attendees were from Operations, one from Sales, myself from Marketing, one from … Continue reading
February 4, 2013
by Dale Yuzuki
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In the world of NGS a sea-change is occurring, and that is the shift to clinical applications of this technology to personalized medicine. It seems like a long time ago and it was only in 2005 when the Roche / … Continue reading
January 28, 2013
by Dale Yuzuki
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FFPE (Formalin-fixed paraffin embedded) tissues are standard preparations in the clinical world. It has been estimated that there are millions of FFPE samples stored in countless hospital laboratories and research pathology groups, all part of a standard operating procedure among … Continue reading
January 25, 2013
by Dale Yuzuki
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A few weeks ago at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Summit in San Francisco, Illumina announced that they acquired a startup company called Moleculo that provides virtual long reads of 8 to 10kb. Single molecule sequencing will provide long reads (Pacific … Continue reading
November 19, 2012
by Dale Yuzuki
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Hello everyone, this post is made while I’m officially on vacation, so while I may post later this week it will only be for recreational purposes. I plan to hold two different webinars at three different occasions this upcoming November … Continue reading
November 12, 2012
by Dale Yuzuki
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ASHG 2012 in San Francisco is finally over! The exhibit booths get torn down, the equipment gets packed up and shipped to storage, and hundreds of foot-weary front-line soldiers get back to their normal routines, whether in sales, marketing, product … Continue reading