BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management solutions, announced that it has signed a contract with Nexus Personalized Health Technologies to create a joint translational research driven offering connecting genetic and clinical information to enable new innovative patient centric solutions in healthcare. Nexus is a leading provider of services to biomedical researchers in […]

St. Louis, MO and San Francisco, CA – Cofactor Genomics, a leader in RNA products and applications, announced that they have acquired San Francisco, CA based Narus Biotechnologies, a biomarker development company focused on creating RNA diagnostic tests for neurological diseases that can help inform therapeutic selection for patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. […]

Hilden, Germany, and Aarhus, Denmark, – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced new partnerships to enhance the profile and expand the use of its market leading bioinformatics solutions for microbiome, metagenomics and other applications. QIAGEN Bioinformatics signed an agreement with genomics big data company CosmosID, Inc. to allow users of QIAGEN’s CLC […]

Rockville, MD, – CosmosID, a leading genomic big data company, announced a partnership with QIAGEN (NASDAQ:QGEN) to launch its metagenomics analysis platform in QIAGEN’s CLC Genomics Workbench. This will complete the comprehensive metagenomics application offered in QIAGEN’s microbial genomics solution. CosmosID will enable QIAGEN’s customers to employ shotgun metagenomics and microbiome analysis for fields such […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN)announced it has signed four separate biobanking deals with Vanderbilt University, University of Colorado at Denver, Partners HealthCare, and Montreal Heart Institute to advance personalized medicine and improve health care. Under the agreements, the large sample collections housed at each institution will be genotyped using Illuminatechnologies. By combining genomic […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & BALTIMORE –DNAnexus Inc., the global leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management, today announced the integration of its cloud-based genomics platform with Sapio Sciences’ Exemplar Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) solution for clinical and research labs. Organizations and their labs now have a cloud-based, sample-to-answer tracking […]

MediSapiens Ltd., a Finnish developer and provider of Bio-IT solutions for research and biomedicine, is a partner in an international consortium aiming at developing personalized medicine applications using integrated genome and other health data. The consortium was founded and is headed by the Competence Centre on Health Technologies of Estonia (CCHT) in the framework of […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced an extension to its longstanding agreement with PerkinElmer, which supplies chips for Agilent’s popular 2100 Bioanalyzer system. Since its introduction in 1999, the 2100 Bioanalyzer system has become an integral part of molecular biology laboratories around the world. It is used in DNA sequencing, gene expression, […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — DNAnexus Inc., the leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management, today announced that POLARIS (Personalized OMIC Lattice for Advanced Research and Improving Stratification), is now using DNAnexus to enable a series of genomic tests. The production-scale clinical applications will be used by the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS). POLARIS was […]

Hercules, CA —— Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that it has joined the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain established in 2015 by scientists from IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) and Mars, Incorporated. The consortium is combining advanced genomics with […]