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Notes on genomics, personalised healthcare and precision diagnostics from the team at Genique Lifesciences.
The Génie Talks · 7 Sept 2026 A billion copies of a question mark
In 1983 a chemist named Kary Mullis pulled over on Highway 128 with an idea worth stopping for. Copying DNA is a solved problem. What the copies mean is not.
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The Génie Talks · 20 Aug 2026 What the 1977 paper actually says
His name was Frederick Sanger. He is sometimes called the father of genomics and almost nobody outside a lab has heard of him. He went home to his garden most evenings and disliked fuss so thoroughly that he turned down a knighthood, because he did not fancy being called Sir.
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The Génie Talks · 1 Aug 2026 Four millimetres
What lung cancer testing actually runs out of in an Indian lab. Not awareness, not approved drugs, but tissue, spent one question at a time.
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The Génie Talks · 13 Jul 2026 The last mile of a genome
The sequencing is extraordinary and the interpretation is careful, and then it's poured into a report built for the machine that produced it, not the person reading it.
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The Génie Talks · 26 Jun 2026 The sequencer is the easy part
Why the person who sells you the box wants you to stop worrying about it. The instrument is maybe a fifth of what decides whether in-house sequencing works.
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The Génie Talks · 29 May 2026 Sequencing the herd: how next-generation genomics could reshape Indian dairy
India leads the world in milk volume and lags badly in yield per animal. Genomic selection can close that gap, but not before the reference-genome, aggregation and bioinformatics work is done.
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The Génie Talks · 4 May 2026 Shifting the paradigm: moving precision oncology from late-stage lifeline to early-stage cure
Precision oncology works, mostly at the stage where cure is no longer the goal. The biological case for moving it upstream is strong; the infrastructure to carry it is not there yet.
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The Génie Talks · 30 Apr 2026 The molecular map: how genomic sequencing is rewriting the rules of medicine
Sequencing has gone from expensive scientific wonder to fundamental utility, dismantling the medicine of averages across oncology, pharmacology, reproductive health and rare disease.
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The Génie Talks · 22 Apr 2026 The unfinished map: why whole genome is the new standard
The exome reads only the highlighted sentences. In the NICU, where hours decide a lifetime of outcomes, whole genome sequencing has become the standard of care rather than the upgrade.
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The Génie Talks · 2 Dec 2025 Decoding diabetes: how genomics is shaping the future of screening and management
Diabetes has long been read as a lifestyle condition. Beneath diet and habit sits a deeper layer, your genes, and genomic screening can surface that risk years before symptoms do.
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The Génie Talks · 27 Oct 2025 The genomic decoding
A decade of progress has moved sequencing from a costly research tool to everyday clinical practice, reshaping oncology, rare disease, agriculture and how we understand life itself.
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