Daniel Diaz

How an Illumina bioinformatics engineer contributes to the company mission For Daniel Diaz, it’s not just a job: He’s motivated by the belief that one day we’ll have a better understanding of all diseases

Erin did an amazing job capturing "my why".
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#genomics #illumina #DRAGEN

Survival of Transplanted Allogeneic Beta Cells with No Immunosuppression | NEJM The need to suppress a patient’s immune system after the transplantation of allogeneic cells is associated with wide-ranging side effects. We report the outcomes of transplantation of genetically m...

Genetically modified Beta Cells that are immune evasive. This is an incredible step in the right direction to a possible #Type1Diabetes cure that does not require immune suppression.

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YouTube video by Marty Caswell MartyTimeTV Padres pitcher Mason Miller on living with Type 1 diabetes &who he is away from the baseball field

"I sit here and get to do one of the coolest jobs in the world & play baseball for a living, and I do all that as type 1 diabetic. I hope to be an inspiration to kids that they can do anything they want to."

#Padres pitcher Mason Miller on living with type one diabetes

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New Space-Based Research May Pave the Way for First Astronaut with Diabetes The Axiom Mission 4 crew will launch to the ISS with an investigation to advance diabetes management on Earth and in space.

This is Epic! 🚀 Axiom Mission 4 will research the accuracy of continuous glucose monitors #CGM and the viability of different insulins in space! With the end goal to "eventually fly a crew member with the condition". #T1D #diabetes
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Just beat Expedition 33. The music is awesome and the game is lots of fun! Never played a RPG like this, but it was totally worth it. #monami #ps5

Thanks @shunhuahan.bsky.social for sharing with me.

A parent with #T1D gives the child a sub-5 % early-life risk, but a parent who carries a T1D genetic burden in the top 1% can push the child’s risk higher (even if that parent does not have #T1D!) So in some cases PGS > Family History of T1D (excluding if both parents have T1D)
#Diabetes #Genomics

I think i just heard the sonic boom from the spacex landing in oceanside! Wish I knew about it earlier so I could have watched it.

Just finished reading #Abundance by Ezra Klein and
@dkthomp.bsky.social . Well worth it! The authors sum up the book well in the first chapter: "This book is dedicated to a simple idea: to have the future we want, we need to build and invent more of what we need." #booksky

Watching #SailGP in SF was awesome!

Afreeza is a form of inhaled #insulin I use, in addition to normal insulin in my insulin pump. It’s super fast acting ( starts working in 30 minutes ) and i think it’s great. Today i decided to look up its full cost in cvs… 😅😅😅
#T1D #Diabetes

Awesome!

The "Special Diabetes Program" is a federal program that sends 160 million dollars to the #NIH to advance #T1D research. Each of the listed technologies was enabled with the Special Diabetes Program and I have used each one to make my Type 1 Diabetes management easier.

4 life changing technologies I use made possible by #NIH Research and the "Special Diabetes Program":

- #Tandem Control IQ (Insulin delivery algorithm)
- #Omnipod 5 (Insulin Pump)
- #Dexcom G6 (Continuous Glucose Monitor)
- Glucagon gvoke (Life saving low blood sugar treatment)

#T1D

Illumina on LinkedIn: Illumina: Culture | LinkedIn We asked our employees what they envision for the future of genomics – here's what they had to say. 🧬

Was pleasantly surprised when I opened LinkedIn to find out #Illumina had quoted me on their page! Pretty cool! 🧬💻🙂 : www.linkedin.com/posts/illumi...

Illumina Innovation Roadmap Learn about upcoming technologies being developed into future products as part of our continuous innovation.

Illumina's Innovation Roadmap: 👀 www.illumina.com/science/geno...

- Constellation mapped reads (sequencing with no library prep!)
- Spatial transcriptomics
- 5-base solution for methylation
- Multiomic data analysis

Pretty exciting if you ask me, but I am biased 😂
#illumina #AGBT25

Looking forward to reading about all the cool announcements that come out of #AGBT25 ! 👀👀🧬🧬👏👏

A neoantigen vaccine generates antitumour immunity in renal cell carcinoma - Nature A phase I trial of a neoantigen-targeting personalized cancer vaccine led to durable and polyfunctional T cell responses and antitumour recognition, and was associated with no recurrence in patie...

This is what a world with personalized medicine can look like: Vaccines that are trained to target your specific cancer cells. Super interesting!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#genomics #cancer

oh no way!

oh i have heard amazing things about three body problem!

project hail mary book cover shows an astronaut floating through space

Oh wow, it’s been so long since I have “binged” a book! I picked up Project Hail Mary at the beginning of the week and I just finished it!So good, not a single dull moment! #booksky

This reflects my experience with a GLP-1 as a #T1D as well. Onboarding was rough, but it made my management a lot easier. #t1d #diabetes

Just learned this today, during a state of emergency pharmacists can use professional judgement to refill a perscription without a prescribers auth. Hopefully useful for people affected by the fires who lost access to medication. #T1D #diabetes #cafire

Cell therapy first: transplanted islets working without immunosuppressives - Breakthrough T1D The recipient of gene-edited islets to evade the immune system is making insulin without the use of immunusuppresives.

Very exciting development for immune evasive islet cells. These were transplanted, which are not readily available, but the hope is this could be extended into stem cell derived islets. www.breakthrought1d.org/news-and-upd...

#t1d #diabetes #stemcells

book cover for team of rivals book

Just finished Team Of Rivals! Such a good read! Goodwin does an amazing job showing Lincoln’s incredible emotional intelligence, truly something to admire. #booksky #lincoln

5 Things I Learned in 2024 | Daniel Diaz's Website 5 Things I Learned in 2024

5 lessons I learned in 2024:
1. The value of emotional intelligence
2. We do things because they are hard
3. The Internet is not a valid "third place"
4. Diabetes research is still advancing rapidly
5. Eclipses are cool.

You can see the full post here:
www.dddiaz.com/post/learned...

#yearinreview

Prediction of metabolic subphenotypes of type 2 diabetes via continuous glucose monitoring and machine learning - Nature Biomedical Engineering Metabolic subphenotypes of type 2 diabetes can be predicted by the shape of the glucose curve measured via a continuous glucose monitor during standardized oral glucose-tolerance tests performed at ho...

Interesting new paper using Dexcom cgm data and an ml model to identify 4 different sub phenotypes for type 2 diabetes.
- Muscle insulin resistance
- Hepatic insulin resistance
- β-cell dysfunction
- Impaired incretin action

#diabetes #dexcom #cgm #t2d

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Loop | Daniel Diaz's Website I have had Type 1 Diabetes for over 25 years and today on World Diabetes Day I want to celebrate the most impactful open source project I have ever used. Before I can talk about that though, I have to...

I use Loop (www.dddiaz.com/post/loop/) to help manage my Diabetes. It is incredible that not only is it an open source project, it is now being included in the diabetes standard of care!

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#T1D #diabetes #wearenotwaiting #loop #opensource