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#genomics

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Luke Pembleton

Anyone else finding the sequencing costs appear to be getting more expensive rather then continuing to decline. I'm thinking its likely related to inflation, wages and current US uncertainty...? oh and Illumina and alike only delivering true reduced cost/GB on large scale flowcells, which aren't suitable for many small to medium size projects...
#genomics #bioinformatics

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Radical Anthropology

More on #genomics, this is obviously crazy since the #world's #genetic #diversity is contained within #Africa. Yet African DNA is underrepresented! Oh dear, it should not be only African scientists noticing this.

'African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent’s vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African populations.'

rfi.fr/en/africa/20250404-scie

RFI · Scientists warn African DNA is missing from the global genome mapBy RFI
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Genetic data site #openSNP to close and delete data over #privacy concerns
openSNP, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and risk of misuse by authoritarian governments.
Announced earlier this week by co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, who expressed concerns about how personal #genomics data is subject to abuse today and how fundamentally landscape has changed over the last 14 years.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

BleepingComputer · Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concernsBy Bill Toulas
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Wen

Another ‘scandal - but the wrong one! The real one is that Irish public money founded the acquisition of genetic information and then its transfer to the US - where as has become obvious, a group of pirates who could not give a shit about people are ‘managing’ privacy and the judiciary.

Screen capture from like Article - reads ‘The boss of a company that controls the largest database of Irish genomes a project backed by €66 million from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund - IS to be arraigned on a charge of paying for sex as part of an American investigation into human trafficking. Jonathan Lanfear is chief executive of HiberCell, owner of the Irish company Genuity Science, which controls a huge tranche of Irish genetic data assembled over several years with hefty taxpayer support. The database was assembled when the company was called Genomics Medicine Ireland, but it was later rebranded as Genuity Science and sold to HiberCell, which is based in the US. The business has for years been the source of concern over the private ownership of such sensitive medical data, for which it charges large pharmaceutical companies millions of dollars to access for research purposes.’
Image - a genome - pretty picture if meaningless
#HiberCell#GentuityScience#Privacy
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Headlines Africa

Africa: Renewed Commitment to Strengthen Public Health Surveillance and Address Disease Outbreaks in Africa: [Africa CDC] Addis Ababa -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in sequencing technology, strengthen their collaboration to advance the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI). newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJMH

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Neurofrontiers

We're just migrated from another instance, so here is our (re)introduction:

Neurofrontiers is a bilingual blog about interesting neuroscience topics that tries to be accessible to the broader public while still maintaining scientific accuracy. It's run by a team of two people: a computational neuroscientist, and a graphic designer. We think that being on social media allows us to stay up-to-date with the most recent discussions in science and hope to be able to connect with like-minded individuals.

Posting interests below so we show up in mutual searches:
#neuroscience #brain #mentalhealth #neuro #neurology #depression #medicine #health #covid #neuropsychology #psychiatry #psychology #genomics #genetics #virology #biology #chemistry #biochem #physics #history #geology #astronomy #research #MedTwitter #ScienceTwitter #academia #stem #science #scicomm

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