CARLSBAD, Calif. & NINGBO, China– AACC 2016 – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and HEALTH BioMed (HBM) today announces a collaboration to support HBM’s development of molecular diagnostic (MDx) kits for infectious disease and pharmacogenomics screening to serve the China market. Under the terms of a strategic agreement, HBM will submit […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Philip W. Schiller has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Schiller is currently Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and is a member of Apple’s executive team responsible for the company’s product marketing, developer relations, business marketing, education marketing, international marketing and App Store […]

QIAseq Targeted NGS panels deliver highly sensitive, unbiased and accurate NGS insights Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the launch of a comprehensive portfolio of novel QIAseq NGS panels based on a new and proprietary “Digital NGS” technology allowing unbiased, accurate quantification of DNA, RNA […]

SYDNEY & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–DNAnexus Inc., the global leader in genome informatics and data management, today announced that the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia has selected the DNAnexus Platform to power its new Genome.One clinical whole genome testing company. “Our vision at Garvan is to make genomic information available and beneficial to […]

Sophia Genetics unveils SOPHiA, the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) for Data-Driven Medicine SOPHiA continuously learns from thousands of patients’ genomic profiles, and experts’ knowledge, to improve patients’ diagnostics and treatments SOPHiA revolutionary technology will shortly be made available to the member hospitals of Sophia Genetics’ community with the upcoming new 4.0 version of […]

MILFORD, Mass. — SeraCare Life Sciences, a leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories, announced today that the company’s precision medicine business unit has launched a groundbreaking new laboratory QC software specifically for clinical laboratories running next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based assays. The iQ NGS QC Management Software is a cloud-based software tool, […]

BELLEVUE, Wash.– Translational Software®, Inc. (TSI), a leader in the intelligent use of genetic data for clinical decision support and precision medicine, announced that Sanford Health, a Dakotas-based non-profit health system, and one of the largest integrated health systems in the nation, has selected TSI’s pharmacogenomics (PGx) knowledge base and PGx platform to expand its […]

TOMA Biosciences and Real Time Genomics have joined forces to create a clinical grade analysis package that accurately detects DNA mutations in cancer patient samples acquired in a clinical setting. Foster City, CA (PRWEB) July 12, 2016 TOMA Biosciencesand Real Time Genomics announce a partnership to develop novel analysis tools to process next-generation sequencing data […]

San Carlos, CA, – NuGEN Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Nitin Sood as Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Elizabeth Hutt who recently left to pursue another opportunity. Mr. Sood comes to NuGEN from PerkinElmer, where he served as Vice President and General Manager of their life science instruments business spanning a portfolio of products […]

WALTHAM, Mass. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced a partnership with West China Hospital of Sichuan University, one of the largest single-site hospitals in the world, to develop a joint platform to research precision medicine. The partners shared the news during the seventh round of the China-U.S. […]