How to Use genomics in a Sentence

genomics

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  • And then there is the intricate world of genetics and genomics that has made full strides in the past few decades.
    — Gary Fowler, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • By the early 2000s genomics had transformed their work.
    — Stephanie Stone, Scientific American, 23 July 2022
  • As such, PetDx was able to lean on many of the same techniques used in human genomics, Grosu said.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2021
  • For genomics to help, experts say costs must continue to come down.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 19 Nov. 2020
  • In the early two-thousands, when the minimal-cell project began, the field of genomics was only a few decades old.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Using single-cell genomics, the research team searched the impaired heart for cells that don’t exist in a healthy heart.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • The last ten years of personalized medicine has been taken over by genomics.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In some parts of the country, BA.2 is the cause of more than 70% of new cases, according to a genomics testing company.
    — Laurie McGinley and Lena H. Sun, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The cost of DermTech’s genomics testing is also more than 40% lower than the current approach.
    — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • But in some parts of the country, BA.2 is the cause of more than 70% of new cases, according to a genomics testing company.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Mar. 2022
  • This advance brings us ever closer to the future promised by genomics.
    — Eric D. Green, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The variant, known as 501Y.V2, was identified by South African genomics experts late last year.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Maybe Wood expects that a few explosive winners in biotech or genomics will bail out ARK.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022
  • This issue has been an ongoing headache for genomics researchers for some time.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Similar tools to the new genomics have no doubt been misused in the past to justify racist and social Darwinist ends.
    — Keolu Fox, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2021
  • While genetics is the study of genes and how traits are inherited, genomics is the study of all of a person's genetic makeup, or their genome.
    — Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Large-scale connectomics could give neuroscience the same kind of huge boost that fast, simple genome sequencing brought to genomics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Proteomics, the study of proteins, is going through a major transition that is similar to what happened to genomics about 15 to 20 years ago.
    — John Cumbers, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • If the first phase of the genomics revolution focused on reading genes through gene sequencing, the second phase is about writing genes.
    — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • And while countless genomics companies have already sprung up, for now just four companies run most of the sequencing analyses in the world.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • In the case of the 12 positive cases from the Rose Garden event, a genomics survey could determine how to conduct contact tracing.
    — Lois Parshley, National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2020
  • At the same time, the field of single cell genomics was taking off, generating detailed data at a scale that could only be tackled by tech.
    — Katie Palmer, STAT, 27 June 2021
  • This finding could assist in the study of human genomics, although the researchers are just scratching the surface of the relationship between both species’ genomes.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In San Diego, biotech, pharmaceutical and genomics companies drove the bulk of San Diego venture funding in the quarter.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2021
  • Still, as a physician at the cutting edge of the genomics revolution, Dr. Ashley is aware—more acutely than most—of the limitations of science.
    — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Researchers at the genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe conducted the study as part of a larger Covid project.
    — NBC News, 17 Jan. 2022
  • No one is yet sure, but the answer may transform our understanding of parasite genomics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Gates is expected to focus on innovation and the role of genomics in fighting off the next global pandemic.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Although researchers have been studying proteins for decades, the technologies have been far behind what is available for genomics.
    — John Cumbers, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • The company has developed and combined two genomics tests for detecting melanoma, now marketed as the DermTech Melanoma Test.
    — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2021

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