Stories by Jonas Korlach

Jonas Korlach is chief scientific officer at Pacific Biosciences of California. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular and cell biology from Cornell University. Credit: Nick Higgins

Conservation

Something to Crow About: The Rise of Conservation Genomics

Understanding the genomes of endangered species could help stop their slide toward extinction

March 13, 2019 — Jonas Korlach

Policy

We Need More Diversity in Genomic Databases

A heavy skew toward white people makes precision medicine imprecise

March 1, 2019 — Jonas Korlach

Policy

We Need More Diversity in Our Genomic Databases

The ones we have now are too heavily skewed toward people of European descent

December 4, 2018 — Jonas Korlach