Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced through its Applied Biosystems unit, that the Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has acquired eight additional SOLiD™ Systems for a variety of genomics studies. The SOLiD System is the company’s next-generation genomic analysis platform for DNA […]
Strength in genetic research example of University of Houston’s ability to solve challenges of 21st century HOUSTON, Dec. 11, 2008 – In a move that demonstrates the commercial appeal of research coming out of the University of Houston, a local company created by six of its professors was sold to a global conglomerate in the […]
RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced that the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will become an early access partner for its new RDT 1000 and Sequence Enrichment Solution. Under the Early Access Partner program, RainDance will deliver to the Broad […]
– Consortium to improve DNA analysis technologies launches under EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) – OXFORD, United Kingdom–Oxford Nanopore Technologies (“Oxford Nanopore”) today announced its participation in the Revolutionary Approaches and Devices for Nucleic Acid analysis project (READNA). The newly-launched READNA consortium includes researchers from 16 academic and industrial institutions and will receive €12m in […]
454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, today announced that a team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have characterized the human gut microbiome by sequencing the microbial communities of adult twins and their mothers with the Genome Sequencer FLX System. The work is part of the International Human Microbiome Project, an initiative to […]
Helicos BioSciences (NASDAQ:HLCS) announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Ronald Lowy as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Ron has served on the Board of Helicos since November 2007 and will continue to do so. Steve Lombardi will continue in the position of President of Helicos and a member of the […]
Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing third-generation DNA sequencing technology, announced today that Elaine Mardis, Ph.D., co-director of The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine, has joined its Scientific Advisory Board. The company also announced that it recently received $20 million in funding from a new investor, Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners, bringing the […]
The study of microbial communities from environmental samples, known as metagenomics, has been propelled forward by technological advancements in high-throughput, low-cost sequencing such as 454’s Genome Sequencer FLX System. With the recent use of sequencing approaches for metagenomic analysis, the major research challenges have shifted from generating to analyzing data. To resolve these analysis bottlenecks, […]
SEATTLE–Geospiza, Inc., the market leading developer of genetic analysis software, today announced that the Molecular Genetics Core Facility of the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School has selected Geospiza’s FinchLab™ to manage its genetic sequencing operations. “We were looking for a way to provide access to our sequencing data through one location,” said Hal […]
Scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a leading genome research institute, will use ultra-high throughput genomic analysis systems from Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) to further conduct comprehensive analyses of the genetic changes that characterize cancer in humans. Applied Biosystems today announced that it will add five new SOLiD™ Systems to the Broad […]
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