Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases ► Reviews, News and Commentaries

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 34  Number 13  April 2-9, 2015

Reviews, News and Commentaries

Enzyme improves CRISPR, by Grens K. The Scientist, Apr 1, 2015.

Smartphone HIV test, 
Nature Biotechnology 2015;33:221

Obama Seeks to Double Funding to Fight Antibiotic Resistance, Tavernise S, Shear MD. New York Times, Mar 27, 2015.

Liberia Recommends Ebola Survivors Practice Safe Sex Indefinitely, Fink S. New York Times, Mar 28, 2015.

Ebola's fast evolution questioned, 
Callaway E. Nature, Mar 26, 2015.

Genome Canada launches C$30.5M genomics innovation network, GenomeWeb, Mar 31, 2015

Outbreak of EV-D68 detected by cross-reactivity in GenMark respiratory viral panel Johnson M. GenomeWeb, Mar 31, 2015.

Enterovirus 68 may be linked to paralysis in children, study says Saint Louis C. New York Times, Mar 31, 2015.

Researchers demonstrate amplicon sequencing on MinIon with eye toward point-of-care applications Heger M, Genome Web, Mar 26, 2015.

MeMed rolling out proteomic test to distinguish between bacterial, viral infections Bonislawski A. GenomeWeb, Mar 27, 2015.

Catalog of earth microbes could help find alien life Cofield C. Yahoo News, Apr 1, 2015.

Speeding new antibiotics to market: a fake fix? 
Doshi Peter et al. BMJ 2015 h1453

Viral cell-to-cell transmission-why less is more. 
Richardson Lauren A et al. PLoS Biol. 2015 Mar (3) e1002095

Successful test launch for nanopore sequencing. 
Loman Nicholas J et al. Nat. Methods 2015 Mar 31. (4) 303-304

A microbiological revolution meets an ancient disease: improving the management of tuberculosis with genomics. 
Wlodarska Marta et al. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 2015 Apr (2) 523-539

Developing vaccines for an aging population
Black S, et al. Sci Transl Med 2015;7(281):281ps8