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A technical guide to prescription-free continuous glucose monitors in the US — Stelo, Lingo, Libre Rio — with real accuracy numbers, cost per month, interference modes, and how to get the raw data out.
A technical guide to building a baseline blood panel you can track over years: which analytes to order, how to control preanalytical variation, and the math that tells you whether a change is real.
A whole genome is every base of your DNA, read at some depth, delivered as files. Here is what the files contain, which tools to run on them, and where short-read WGS quietly fails.
A specific panel, drawn quarterly, with the analytic variation and pre-analytic rules that decide whether a change in a number is real. What to order, what to skip, and how to handle the data.
A price breakdown of array genotyping, panels, exomes, and whole genomes, what each price includes, and what you get back as files.
A technical account of what a comprehensive blood panel measures, what the CMP's 14 analytes do and don't tell you, and how to get from a panel of numbers to data you can analyze yourself.
A practical spec for buying whole-genome sequencing: coverage, library prep, file formats, the QC you should run yourself, and what WGS still misses.
A working guide to array genotyping versus whole-genome sequencing, the files you get, the tools to run on them, and the failure modes that make confident-looking results wrong.
You can run a nanopore sequencer on your kitchen table and get real reads, but you cannot get clinical-grade whole-genome coverage that way. Here is what home sequencing produces, what it costs, and where sending a sample out is the better call.