San Carlos, CA – NuGEN Technologies, Inc. announced the launch of the Ovation® SoLo RNA-Seq System, the company’s latest tool in its suite of sample preparation products supporting research in areas previously hampered by sample input limitations such as single cells and liquid biopsy. The Ovation® SoLo kit will facilitate research in areas such as […]

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and Thermo Fisher Scientific have agreed to develop a next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based panel designed specifically for pediatric cancer research. The assay would be CHLA’s first NGS panel designed to target biomarkers associated with childhood cancers. The NGS panel under development is a unique targeted DNA and RNA sequencing-based research gene […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, announced $45 million in Series A fundraising, led by Kryssen Capital, an international investment fund that focuses on data-driven ventures at the cutting edge of science. The investment will support ongoing innovation of the Seven Bridges Platform, a scalable, cloud-based suite of tools for biomedical […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, announced that the system it was selected to develop as part of the National Cancer Institute’s Cloud pilot program is open to researchers worldwide. The Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud is the first complete ecosystem to give cancer researchers immediate access to one of the […]

Stratos Genomics Inc. announced it achieved a major technical milestone last month by demonstrating nanopore sequencing with their proprietary expandable nucleotides (X-NTP™). Stratos’ Sequencing by Expansion technology (SBX™) is an efficient, low-cost DNA preparation method that rescales a DNA target into a longer surrogate polymer. This surrogate, called an Xpandomer™, encodes the sequence information in […]

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Sophia Genetics, the global leader in Data-Driven Medicine (DDM), announced today the signing of a new strategic partnership with Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT). Under the terms of the agreement, Sophia Genetics will combine its Sophia DDM™ analytics platform with IDT’s NGS target capture products. The new bundle will create the most advanced […]

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced the launch of the BD CLiC™ System during the 2016 Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Meeting. The BD CLiC System enables genomic research by providing cost effective NGS library preparation with limited operator intervention. The […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Silicon Biosys­tems Menarini and Macrogen, Inc. announced they will form a partnership to provide clinical assays and innovative procedures for precision medicine in cancer. The goal of the collaboration is to combine Silicon Biosystems’ DEPArray™ digital-sorting technology with Macrogen’s high-throughput Next Generation Sequencing capabilities toward the development of tests certified under […]

PLEASANTON, Calif. – 10x Genomics introduced the new Chromium System, a transformative upgrade for existing short-read sequencers. The Chromium System unlocks critical long range genomic and cell-by-cell gene expression information. The system supports the following applications: Chromium Single Cell 3’ performs deep profiling of complex cell populations with high-throughput digital gene expression on a cell-by-cell […]

SANTA CLARA and PLEASANTON, Calif., – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and10x Genomics announced a collaboration to develop a groundbreaking exome allowing in-depth discovery of important novel content within and around the exome by enabling phasing, access to previously unmappable loci, structural variation, and copy number detection through the use of complementary products of both […]