A recent New York Times article reported that Chris Long (a bone marrow transplant recipient) learned that “Swabs of his lips and cheeks contained his DNA — but also that of his donor.” This is the exact reason that Mawi DNA Technologies has always chosen to focus on buccal cells,… read more →
In the video above, Dr. El-Fahmawi shares a personal experience of his child having serious ailments as a baby. She was severely ill and doctors had a difficult time diagnosing the issue. Going through the traumatic experience resulted in the creation of the company, Mawi DNA. Dr. El-Fahmawi saw that there was a need for:… read more →
We have been advocating that the diversity in genomics research is an issue since Mawi DNA’s inception in 2014. Interestingly, in late 2018 and now 2019 several publications came out to describe this issue in greater details. Unfortunately, such gap of genetic data hinders progress in understanding the global picture… read more →
Here’s a study protocol about maternal pre-conceptional nutrition and children’s health that was written by Giriraj R. Chandak†, Matt J. Silver†, Ayden Saffari, Karen A. Lillycrop, Smeeta Shrestha, Sirazul Ameen Sahariah, Chiara Di Gravio, Gail Goldberg, Ashutosh Singh Tomar, Modupeh Betts, Sara Sajjadi, Lena Acolatse, Philip James, Prachand Issarapu, Kalyanaraman… read more →
Here’s a Research Article about detection of Oxidative Stress in Buccal Cells using iSWAB Tubes that was written by SMarcel Bassil*, Aya Al Atat, and Mariam Ibragim. In this paper they mention using iSWAB-Mawi tubes.
HAYWARD, CA – January 11, 2017 – Mawi DNA Technologies, a biotechnology company focusing on development of innovative technologies for biosampling, announces the launch of iSWAB-Microbiome (ISWAB-MB) designed to collect… read more →
We are very much looking forward to exhibiting at ASHG-2016 in Vancouver, Canada! This will be our third consecutive year participating at ASHG, which is always an important conference for…
We are excited to add the MilliporeSigma GenElute(TM) Blood Kit to the list of extraction kits successfully validated for DNA isolation from iSWAB samples. The validation was performed by MilliporeSigma… read more →