WILMINGTON, Del.– Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. has commenced a class action asserting violations of the Federal securities laws by Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (“PACB” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ GS: PACB) on behalf of PACB shareholders. On April 6, 2012, the Court appointed Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. lead counsel in connection with the litigation. If […]

International study presented at American Society of Hematology Meeting demonstrates the potential of 454 Sequencing Systems to comprehensively characterize an individual’s blood cancer type to guide personalized therapy decisions At the American Society of Hematology Meeting (ASH) Roche announced today the presentation of results from the large scale study IRON-II through an international research consortium. […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that DNA Link Inc., a Korean genomic research service provider, has placed an order to purchase ten Ion Proton™ Sequencers, which are shipping immediately. To watch a short interview with DNA Link’s CEO, Dr. Jong Eun Lee, click here. Life Technologies introduced the Ion Proton™ […]

The Personal Genome Project Canada (PGP-C) launches this week giving Canadians an unprecedented opportunity to participate in a groundbreaking research study about human genetics and health. A collaborative academic research effort with Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project (PGP-HMS), PGP-C aims to sequence the genomes of 100 Canadians over the next year. Combined, the projects […]

LEXINGTON, Mass. and MUNICH, Germany –– RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, and the MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL) today announced that MLL will be releasing data for a new myeloid hematological malignancies gene panel generated using RainDance Technologies’ ThunderStorm™ System coupled with Illumina’s MiSeq™ platform. MLL will present initial results from a technology […]

BIOBASE today announced a new agreement with the University of Southern California and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The agreement covers the exclusive worldwide marketing and distribution of the ANNOVAR tool to commercial users. ANNOVAR enables the annotation of genomic variants on a variety of species including human. It is an efficient software tool for […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –– Era7 Bioinformatics, a Next Generation Sequencing provider based in Spain, announced today the opening of its first U.S. office, located in the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Era7 expects to have three employees in Cambridge by the end of 2013. “When we first thought about expanding our company outside of […]

San Francisco – The Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) today announced the launch of a research collaboration with Appistry, a leading US-based provider of high-performance computing and analytics for managing and storing “big data.” “We are excited about this collaboration as it leverages on our computational genomics platform,” […]

AMSBIO small RNA and mRNA sample library construction kits have been designed to enable fast and cost-effective Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) As a disruptive technology, NGS is rapidly changing the landscape of biomarker research, clinical diagnostics, and drug development. NGS technologies include a number of methods that are grouped broadly as template preparation, sequencing and imaging, […]

As a disruptive technology, NGS is rapidly changing the landscape of biomarker research, clinical diagnostics, and drug development. NGS technologies include a number of methods that are grouped broadly as template preparation, sequencing and imaging, and data analysis. The unique combination of specific protocols distinguishes one technology from another and determines the type of data […]