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Last week news broke that Element Biosciences had won a patent lawsuit against Illumina, and that it affected MiSeq.  MiSeq???? How did a patent battle in 2026 affect a platform launched nearly a decade and a half ago?  And which had been launched about five years before Element incorporated.  Which is being put out to pasture, though the MiSeqDx versi...

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Okay, this is one of those cases where I kvetch about other people not having built the tools I want to use - perhaps a bit of a insufferably egotistical position.  I mean, what gives me the chutzpah to do that?  My title, according to me, is "Automation Visioneer", so that gives me the right - though again, self-given title, self-given right.  But I hope you'll b...

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I caught up by teleconference recently with Countable Labs CEO Giovanna Prout, fresh off Countable Labs' $26M equity fundraising - a round which was oversubscribed.  Top on my agenda: what is Prout's vision to turn that money into products.  And how will Countable balance building molecular tools vs. applying those tools to clinical problems?

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An interesting news item this week is that BioNano Genomics has appointed Alex Hastie as Chief Scientific Officer.  Hastie is an obvious choice for CSO, as for many years he was very much the public scientific face of BioNano's development.  .  But in February 2025 he left BioNano and headed to Arima Genomics.  But after a bit over a year at Arima and then a ...

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