Jeffrey Epstein’s tissue samples ignited a furor in the Harvard lab of George Church, reports @mmolteni.bsky.social in this @statnews.com exclusive. 13 years later, the whereabouts of the sex offender’s skin cells are a mystery www.statnews.com/2026/02/24/e...

Illumina officially launches TruPath, their pseudo-long read sequencing kit (formerly called Constellation), at #AGBT #AGBT25 www.illumina.com/company/news...

I have a little more detail and some commentary here - sandiegomics.com/element-join...

Element reveals more information about their VITARI platform, a foray into the high-throughput sequencing market. sandiegomics.com/element-join...

PacBio’s very expensive foray into short read sequencing is now officially over. 🙄 www.pacb.com/press_releas...

Non-coding DNA's Alpha Moment 🧬🖥️ omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/02/non-...

Some close encounters with Jim Watson: www.genengnews.com/topics/omics...

Some consolidation in the single cell space - 10X Genomics (@10xgenomics.bsky.social) set to acquire Scale Biosciences www.genengnews.com/topics/omics...

📢 We are very proud to announce that over 50 of our #AVITI24 5D #multiomic systems have already been installed around the globe enabling scientists to unravel the most complex questions about our biology. bit.ly/458UCky

Atlas, Twist's DNA data storage spin-off, is claiming that "pretty quickly" the majority of DNA sequencing (by "orders of magnitude") will be for reading data storage. I'm skeptical. Maybe we have different definitions of "pretty quickly". #dnasynth #datastorage www.genomeweb.com/business-new...

Quick update on this - a good one! Thanks to our fantastic colleagues at county HHSA, we're able to continue our wastewater surveillance work, including generating retroactive data from the last few months, as well as new data moving forward. For how long, we'll see, but expect updates soon! 🌟❤️

Updated a broken link in my substack post about the #ColossalBio #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign – dire wolves are still extinct. open.substack.com/pub/devoevom...

Illumina goes “all in” on proteomics by purchasing SomaLogic (from Standard BioTools). Can they overtake Olink? www.illumina.com/company/news...

Can't wait to listen to this one!

The most charitable thing I can say about Twist’s (@twistbioscience.com) China tariff request is that it’s “unconvincing”. Tariffs aren’t the way to protect IP. This is just about making Chinese DNA more expensive. endpoints.news/twist-biosci... downloads.regulations.gov/BIS-2025-002...

@jaredwhitlock.bsky.social has written an article about the many new companies spun out/spawned by ex-Illuminites. In it he references the crowdsourced "Illumina Diaspora" database Millard Chan and I created to keep track of them all. sandiegomics.com/illumina-dia... endpts.com/how-illumina...

Roche has finally given their upcoming DNA sequencer a name - Axelios. So now we can stop calling it "Genia + Stratos". www.genomeweb.com/molecular-di...

Illumina hasn't had a lot of wins recently. I think they'd count this as a win. endpts.com/sec-expected...

This has to be one of the most "anti-science" and "anti-common sense" administrations the US has ever had. Tariffs are a tax, pure and simple and the consumer will be the one to pay the cost.

@twistbioscience.com is spinning out their DNA data storage tech. Atlas Data Storage is kicking off with $155M in "seed" funding 😳 That's a lot of "seed" for a market that doesn't exist yet. Best of luck! #dnasynthesis investors.twistbioscience.com/news-release...

Novartis announced a big commitment/addition to the San Diego biotech scene. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/10/a...

Things just keep getting worse for ILMN. Stagnant growth, increased competition from @elembio.bsky.social and Ultima, the threat of competition from Roche SBX, and now they’re shut down in China where they get 7% of their revenue. Yikes. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Wow, perhaps Tang Capital was just trying to buy Singular Genomics to shut them down for the cash. I assumed Tang was trying to combine them with other acquisitions. Glad they weren’t the winning bid.

RNA xkcd.com/3056

Xenium product updates : RNA and protein multiomics workflow @10xgenomics.bsky.social #AGBT2025 #AGBT25

#visiumhd product updates : segmentation , visium HD XL , visium hd 3’ @10xgenomics.bsky.social #agbt25

Looking forward to seeing what 10X has in store for 2025

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Drug giant Roche has long had a bad reputation in DNA sequencing. But no longer, it appears. Latest here: endpts.com/roche-no-lon...

Roche’s Fantasy Sequencer Slowly Turning Into a Fantastic Reality #sequencing #nanopore #genomics sandiegomics.com/roches-fanta...

I'll post my Roche sequencer update soon (need to wait for the webinar to end), but let's see how ILMN is taking the news...

Maybe a little too much credit to Element and Ultima, but otherwise an excellent story!

#AGBT sounds like it's going to be a banger with lots of big announcements. The latest is Illumina announcing their upcoming high resolution, broad coverage, large surface area spatial transcriptomics platform. Set for launch in 2026. www.genengnews.com/topics/omics...

Hi everyone on Bluesky working in #genomics #NGS. Today is Valentines day. How many of you are more excited about Feb 20th?! Read my new post on Enseqlopedia Roche emerges from the Lazarus pit to take on Illumina enseqlopedia.com/2025/02/roch...

A sneak peek at Roche’s nanopore sequencer. Really makes me wish I was going to #AGBT this year! #genomics #nanopore #sequencing sandiegomics.com/roche-has-en...

So long San Diego! Here’s my opinionated meeting report from #PAG2025 | #PAG32. What else did I miss???

Some thoughts about what I am looking forward this year from my vantage point of computational molecular biology. One mega-trend for me; we will definitely see more AI methods of all sorts emerge.

What if we put a pool on the moon? Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with Minute Earth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIIB...

Coastal Redwood fairy ring

A gorgeous #sandiego #sunset tonight!

Look who's here @pnas.org ✔️ @science.org ✔️ @naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️ @natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️ @naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️ @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️ @naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️ @genesdev.bsky.social ✔️ @cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️ @genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️ @jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️

Here’s my spreadsheet of starter packs (>80!) related to broadly ‘mechanistic biology’ plus some intriguing extras Complete with collective nouns I’ve been tracking these but now can’t keep up Hope it’s helpful 2/2 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

During lunch I starting moving my lists over from Twitter to Blue - first one is done: "Genomics Biz" list. It's much smaller here vs. on Twitter as many companies - including ILMN and ONT - don't have a presence on Blue. @pacbio.bsky.social does though! 🙌 Bsky list here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

PacBio’s Vega system - the new (small) thing in long reads sandiegomics.com/pacbios-vega...

PacBio’s new SPRQ chemistry brings down the LR human genome to $500. Is it enough to move the needle (faster)? sandiegomics.com/pacbio-sprq/

After another year of fresh competition in the DNA sequencing space, there’s a clear loser and clear winner. Surprise twist: it’s the same company! sandiegomics.com/2023-sequenc... #genomics #sequencing