Otsu/Shiga, Japan — Takara Bio Inc. has announced an agreement with Pathogenica Inc., based in Boston, to market and distribute the Pathogenica HAI (Hospital Acquired Infection) BioDetection Kit in Japan. The kit is currently being sold for research use and is the first DNA sequencing analysis product that enables identification of infectious diseases with sequence-specific […]
REYKJAVIK, Iceland – deCODE Genetics and Illumina, global leaders in analyzing and understanding the human genome, together with scientists from the National Hospital of Iceland and collaborators from Holland, Germany and the United States, reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine the identification of just the second gene variant found to confer high […]
Ipswich, MA – New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB) launched their new NEBNext® “Ultra” kits at the recent American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting. These kits provide streamlined, low-input methods to prepare DNA and RNA libraries for Illumina® next generation sequencing. The supplied protocols and reagents are designed to maximize useful data from a […]
LEXINGTON, Mass. –– RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced that the University College London (UCL) Cancer Institute has adopted its ThunderStorm™ System as a centralized platform for the validation of genomic and epigenomic targets from clinical and non-clinical studies, including follow-ups for genome-wide and epigenome-wide association studies (GWAS and EWAS), as well […]
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its board of directors has appointed Ron Nersesian Agilent president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. Nersesian has been executive vice president and chief operating officer since November 2011. Nersesian, 53, will continue to be responsible for Agilent’s Chemical Analysis (CAG), Life Sciences (LSG), Electronic Measurement (EMG), […]
Basel, Switzerland,– Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced a partnership with Life Technologies Corporation designed to create a streamlined ecosystem that empowers researchers in both academic and commercial settings to accelerate discovery and validation experiments. As part of the collaboration, Genedata will integrate Life […]
BERKELEY, CA – IO Informatics, the leader in semantic data integration and knowledge management for life sciences and healthcare, announced today it has launched its Sentient iDA in cooperation with Sage-N Research, Inc., the inventor of Integrated Data Appliance (iDA) systems. As the result of a partnership announced March 2012, a new line of iDA […]
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced SureSelect Human All-Exon V5 and V5 + UTRs for next-generation sequencing. The new all-exon solutions incorporate the latest advances from Agilent Genomics, the originator of target enrichment for human exomes. SureSelect Human All-Exon V5 continues to build on the market-leading SureSelect Target Enrichment platform, enabling faster turnaround-producing exome […]
LEXINGTON, Mass. and SAN FRANCISCO –– RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced new placements of its ThunderStorm™ System at the LIGAN-Personalized Medicine Equipment of Excellence at the Pasteur Institute of Lille in France and CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate in Naples, Italy. The ThunderStorm System is a fully automated high-throughput targeted sequencing solution that […]
SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the winners of its MiSeq grant program at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting in San Francisco. Illumina received almost 850 applications from researchers in over 40 countries in fields as diverse as microbiology, cancer, inherited disease, and evolutionary biology. The awardees are: • […]
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