Cartagenia Bench Addresses Inherent Challenges of Somatic Variant Assessment Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today released Cartagenia Bench Lab 5.0, a major new version of its lab software with new capabilities for somatic variant classification and reporting. Cartagenia Bench Lab is designed to help laboratories involved in clinical genetics and molecular pathology efficiently interpret and […]

Hospitals and laboratories using the Sophia DDM® analytical platform in 35 countries will benefit from SOPHiA™ artificial intelligence combined with Archer® FusionPlex®, VariantPlex™, and Reveal ctDNA™ sample preparation kits LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Today, at the AMP 2016 Annual Meeting, Sophia Genetics, global leader in Data-Driven Medicine, and world-class Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) assay developer ArcherDX, announced the […]

Agreement builds on existing collaboration to develop cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Reference Standards to support CareDx’s solid organ transplant injury monitoring tests Ongoing collaboration supports strategy to provide reliable revenue through the inclusion of Horizon’s HDxTM Reference Standards in established assay workflows Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon”), the world leader in the application […]

Shenzhen, China—BGI today launched its latest high-throughput sequencing platform, BGISEQ-50, at the 11th International Conference on Genomics (ICG-11). It is a miniaturized sequencer that after BGISEQ-500 to continue to reinforce the NGS (Next Generation Sequencing). Based on the technique from combinatorial Probe-Anchor Synthesis (cPAS) and DNA Nanoballs (DNB) sequencing, BGISEQ-50 is a sharp, dedicated and […]

NEW YORK, NY & CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Flatiron Health and Foundation Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:FMI) today announced the launch of a clinico-genomic database designed to help researchers and biopharmaceutical partners accelerate the development of targeted therapeutics and immunotherapies to treat cancer. The clinico-genomic database, containing information on nearly 20,000 patients, is one of the largest and most comprehensive information efforts […]

Products Optimized for Targeted Resequencing and Exome Sequencing of FFPE Cells BOLOGNA, Italy – Menarini-Silicon Biosystems Inc., a developer and manufacturer of technologies and products that help uncover the biological complexities of dis­ease at the single-cell level, and Swift Biosciences, Inc., a developer of innovative technologies for sample preparation for next-generation sequencing (NGS), today announced […]

MORRISVILLE, N.C. – Q2 Solutions, a global clinical trials laboratory services organization, today announced the expansion of its genomic companion diagnostics (CDx) capabilities. This comes as a result of an agreement between Q2 Solutions – EA Genomics and Illumina, a global leader in genomics, to establish a framework for developing next-generation sequencing-based (NGS) CDx assays. […]

All-in-One library prep kit, plus collection, stabilization and bioinformatics solutions enable NIPT and cancer research Vancouver, Canada, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the launch of the QIAseq® cfDNA All-in-One Kit, combining cell-free DNA extraction and library preparation in the first dedicated solution for liquid biopsy analysis […]

All-in-One library prep kit, plus collection, stabilization and bioinformatics solutions enable NIPT and cancer research Vancouver, Canada, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the launch of the QIAseq® cfDNA All-in-One Kit, combining cell-free DNA extraction and library preparation in the first dedicated solution for liquid biopsy analysis […]

NAstack, a Toronto-based genomic software company, today announced the launch of its cloud platform to accelerate genetic disease research and precision medicine. DNAstack provides push-button access to state-of-the-art genomics data analysis and sharing to help scientists more quickly and cost-effectively make sense of the world’s exponentially accumulating genomics data and break down barriers to data […]