VICTORIA, BC, Canada & AARHUS, Denmark — GenoLogics and CLC bio today announced they will provide an end-to-end informatics and analysis solution, optimized for Next Generation Sequencing research that addresses both lab and data management and data analysis all within one integrated system. This end-to-end solution will significantly impact researchers’ ability to aggregate raw data […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing a disruptive technology platform for real-time detection of biological events at single molecule resolution, announced today that Evan Eichler, Ph.D. has joined its Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Eichler is currently Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle. The long-term […]

OXFORD, United Kingdom — Oxford Nanopore Technologies congratulates our collaborators Professor Mark Akeson and Professor David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on receiving a grant of $1.1 million, and Professor Jene Golovchenko of the University of Harvard on receiving $745,000 following on from a previous grant of $6.5 million. These grants […]

Sales Leader to Bring Years of Experience to Key Role within Commercial Operations CARLSBAD, Calif.–Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced that it has named Jay Therrien to the position of Vice President, Global Sales for Next Generation Sequencing. In this role, Therrien will be responsible for all […]

BRANFORD, Conn.–A study published online today in the prestigious Nature Medicine journal reports that researchers at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center have explored a new high-throughput method for decoding one of the most critical genomic regions for the immune system. In the study, they used ultra-deep sequencing with the Genome Sequencer FLX System from […]

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has received an “Advanced Sequencing Technology Award” from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to design a silicon-based “DNA Transistor” that will advance genome sequencing technology and generate progress in health care diagnosis and practice. As […]

Funding Will Support Development of Company’s SMRT™ Biology Applications MENLO PARK, Calif.–Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing a disruptive technology platform for real-time detection of biological events at single molecule resolution, today announced that it has received grants totaling more than $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of the American […]

Knome Personal Genomics Service Expands to Include 93,000 Rare Mutations from the Human Gene Mutation Database Distributed by BIOBASE. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and WOLFENBÜTTEL, Germany–Knome, a recognized pioneer in the personal genomics industry, announced today that it is incorporating information from The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD® – Cardiff University, UK) distributed by BIOBASE, into its […]