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Likhitha
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Making sense of genomics through data and tech 🧬💻
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Why perform rapid WGS for babies in the NICU? #GRD25
1. Increased NICU profitability
2. Reduced length of stay (and expense)
3. Gold standard for diagnosis of #RareDiseases
4. Gateway to precision therapeutics & interventions
5. Removes uncertainty & eliminates diagnostic odyssey
April 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Next speaker of Therapeutics session is @NadavAhituv from USCF talking about "Functional characterization and therapeutic targeting of gene regulatory elements". Tons of genomic data but limited understanding of the regulatory code -> Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs). #GRD25
April 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Great that the UK is initiating a similar randomized trial in 700,000 women, but it seems the results from Sweden have already resolved many of the questions about the use A.I. w/ mammography and has long term follow-up for outcomes in >105,000 participants
theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS to launch world’s biggest trial of AI breast cancer diagnosis
If successful, the scheme could speed up testing and reduce radiologists’ workload by around half
theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Proliferation of middleware still seems worrying in terms of introducing new centralisation challenges. Curious to see how this plays out with decentralisation approaches
February 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM