As one of the world’s largest producers of clinical exomes and approved UK Biobank researcher, the Helix research team has done a first pass on the 50K exomes released last week, made some intriguing associations, and released a public resource. blog.helix.com/uk-biobank-hel…
Breaking News: “Parasite” won the Oscar for best picture. The South Korean thriller is the first foreign-language film to do so, shattering 92 years of history. nyti.ms/2OHZ6ID
A major milestone: We’ve delivered 1,000,000 COVID-19 tests! Over half of these were in just the past 4 weeks. We support >1,000 testing sites from coast to coast and are continually scaling to meet our partners’ need for COVID-19 testing. Read more: blog.helix.com/helix-delivers…
We looked at the prevalence of S gene dropout in 2 million COVID-19 test samples from across the US and saw increasing prevalence over time, particularly in eastern states—suggesting there may be spread of the SARS-CoV-2 UK variant in the United States. blog.helix.com/sars-cov2_uk-v…