Bio-IT World May 5, 2023
Contributed Commentary by Linda De Jesus, VP/GM, Integrated DNA Technologies Global Head of Commercial
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized molecular biology and served as a universal tool for many research avenues across the spectrum of biology. NGS has become crucial in various applications. In agriculture, it is used for adapting crops to our changing world and as an essential infectious disease control tool for detecting novel SARS-CoV-2 variants and emerging outbreaks using wastewater surveillance.
NGS has also been instrumental in initiating a new era of personalized medicine—opening the door for gene therapies and new-age diagnostics to be developed. As these research efforts mature into concepts with broader societal benefits, the need to commercialize...