Mastering the Art of HLA Typing

Navigating the rapidly evolving field of HLA Typing is a critical aspect of modern medicine and research.

The HLA system, with its extreme diversity of over 30,000 officially named alleles, plays a significant role in various clinical and scientific fields, particularly transplantation.?Lee Ann Baxter-Lowe?describes the evolution of HLA Typing methods, leading to the current standard with Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS).

She discusses the extreme diversity of HLA genes, their significant impact on human health and disease, the rapid discovery of new HLA alleles and the development of HLA Typing systems that utilize NGS technology.

CURRENT NEWS

> "Illumina announces CEO transition plan".

Illumina announced a change in leadership for the venerable Next Generation Sequencing company.

> "Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Geneyx announce the first scalable software solution to advance the future clinical use of nanopore sequencing"

Nanopore?and Geneyx team up to offer an AI-enabled clinical reporting tool for NextGen Sequencing results.