We can’t wait for next week’s International Consortium on Newborn Sequencing, better known as ICoNS ’24. This year it’ll be held at the New York Academy of Medicine on October 9 and 10. This is a great event for anyone focused on newborn sequencing, an important area that is gaining traction as an alternative to traditional newborn screening.
The event brings together stakeholders from across the newborn testing industry, from hospital laboratory scientists to policymakers and advocates. This year’s speakers include well-known scientists such as Eric Green from the National Human Genome Research Institute, Wendy Chung from Boston Children’s Hospital, Suzanne Cordovado from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Stephen Kingsmore from Rady Children’s Hospital.
The Quantabio team is honored to be represented at this event as well. Our own Subrata Panja, Associate Director of Field Applications, has been invited to present a poster and give a flash talk about some of our latest work enabling newborn screening and sequencing research. If you’re attending the conference, we hope you have a chance to visit the poster or watch Subrata’s presentation.
Newborn health is an incredibly important field, and we are proud to offer tools that allow laboratory scientists to get better results. Traditional newborn screening is done from the dried blood spot collected during a heel prick. But there are a lot of limitations with standard workflows for analyzing dried blood spots.
More and more, scientists are realizing that these samples could yield more comprehensive and more reliable answers if they could be analyzed with sequencing tools in addition to the conventional testing platforms. That’s where we come in. Quantabio has a long history of providing innovative solutions for cutting-edge genomic applications, including newborn testing and screening research. Extracta DBS was launched to extract PCR-ready genomic DNA from dried blood spots, and our PCR and qPCR ToughMixes are widely used by newborn testing labs globally. Additionally, Quantabio already has sparQ DNA library prep product lines to fulfill the growing need for newborn sequencing research technologies. For the entire workflow, we were only missing an efficient genomic DNA extraction kit that can be used upstream of the sparQ DNA Frag & Library Prep Kit.
That’s why we developed the sparQ DBS Library Prep Kit, which offers a comprehensive workflow for isolating genomic DNA from dried blood spot samples as well as solutions for PCR-free whole genome library preparation downstream using the extracted genomic DNA. It’s a rapid, cost-effective, and robust solution for whole-genome library preparation that will help scientists achieve better results from their newborn screening research workflows.
Learn more at the ICoNS ’24 event, or check out this newborn screening resource
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Oct 3, 2024
