Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University are partnering on the purchase of a new genomic sequencing machine. Both universities say they can achieve more by sharing resources.
The machine is called Illumina NovaSeq X Plus, and it untangles sequencing information from DNA or RNA samples. Scientists can use the data to better understand cancer, agricultural diseases, and other impacts to our health.
“Because of the size of what we can do, we can have hundreds of samples being done in a day, or thousands that could be done in a day, that ordinarily might have taken two, three, four weeks,” said Robin McCarley, executive director of the Fralin Life Sciences Institute at Virginia Tech…