Ambar Ahmed

Food plays an integral role in Pakistan’s identity and heritage. Being a country that is an accumulation of various cultures and ethnicities, nothing represents our diversity better than food. Our cuisine incorporates a whole palette of flavours – sweet, sour, spicy, tangy – all at once. From chatpata street food to mouth-watering gourmet dishes, we have no dearth of food in the country no matter where you go.

Disclaimer: I am not a fashion critic. I possess zero knowledge about it in fact. However, I am concerned by how much space sartorial choices have started taking up in daily news. Choices made by women, to be specific. Ever since the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton arrived in Pakistan, my social media feeds have been flooded with images of the couple. However, most headlines are solely focused on Kate’s wardrobe selection.

Discordance between plasma and tumor variant calling has been attributed primarily to tumor heterogeneity, whereas technical variables remain largely unexplored. To measure these variables, we tested four next-generation sequencing (NGS) gene panel assays for mutations in circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) using replicate sets of 24 plasma samples and compared the results with matched tumor-normal tissue pairs.