Recent Examples on the WebOur colleague Matthew Herper joins us to discuss how Illumina, the biggest company in genomic sequencing, got into an $8 billion predicament. Damian Garde, STAT, 11 Sep. 2022 Ark targets — artificial intelligence, robotics, energy storage, genomic sequencing and blockchain technology. Elaine Chen, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2022 The scientists studied reported infections among 33,000 students across 140,000 class meetings at BU from last fall’s semester, with contact tracing, weekly surveillance testing, and genomic sequencing (analyzing the DNA) of positive cases. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022 One method taps engineered herpes simplex virus to drop up to 30 times more genomic medicine than existing systems. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022 In late 2017, Hsu and his colleagues published a paper demonstrating how, using genomic data at scale, scientists could predict someone’s height to within an inch of accuracy using just their DNA.Wired, 6 July 2022 But this research has been bottlenecked by the limited availability of genomic data. Rob Toews, Forbes, 12 June 2022 San Diego biotech Illumina, a world leader in genomic sequencing technology, is donating equipment and nearly $1 million to the Scripps Oceanography campus to build out two new laboratories and equip them with state-of-the-art technology. Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022 Investigators failed to identify a source for the infection, which genomic sequencing suggested might be linked to a previous case from the same county some 15 years prior. Alexander Tin, CBS News, 27 July 2022 See More
Word History
First Known Use
1934, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
genomic
adjective
ge·nom·ic ji-ˈnō-mik -ˈnäm-ik
: of or relating to a genome or genomics
the genomic constitution of an organism
use of genomic technology to develop new and improved drugs