Cambridge, UK.– Cambridge based Congenica Ltd, a clinical genome diagnostics and discovery company, announced today that it has been one of several Small Business Research Initiative competition awards funded by the UK Department of Health and managed by Genomics England. This funding will be used by Congenica to further develop it’s SAPIENTIATM platform that provides […]

LEXINGTON, Mass.–- N-of-One, Inc., the leading provider of clinical interpretation in oncology, today announced that the company is providing Cedars-Sinai’s Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute in Los Angeles with database services for next-generation sequencing. “We are pleased to provide a database of genetic information to the team of physicians and scientists at Cedars-Sinai and to […]

Redwood City, CA – Bina Technologies today announced the early release of the Bina Annotation Platform, the newest addition to Bina’s highly scalable and accurate genomic analysis product suite. With this addition, Bina allows users to perform secondary analysis (alignment, variant calling) as well as annotation and filtering on their NGS datasets in an integrated, […]

Victoria, B.C. — GenoLogics Life Sciences Software, a leading provider of laboratory information management systems (LIMS) specifically designed for omics labs, announced today that the 3.0 release of Clarity LIMS further supports the growing needs of genomics labs working in clinical environments, including those that are HIPAA-covered entities. This version includes cloud-based features that ensure […]

Auckland, New Zealand — Biomatters is the first New Zealand company to join over 170 organizations forming the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health to progress the use of sequencing data in genomic medicine and applications to human health. Biomatters will be working alongside healthcare providers, research funders and research institutions to ensure clinical data […]

Dutch Software Company GENALICE today announced at the 14th Bio-IT World Conference & Expo that it has started discussions with Intel® about a product development as well as a product delivery partnership. On 12/12 last year, GENALICE launched its groundbreaking DNA processing software; GENALICE MAP. On a simple dual Intel® Xeon® E5 server the company […]

Hologic, Inc. (Hologic or the Company), a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostic products, medical imaging systems and surgical products, with an emphasis on serving the healthcare needs of women, today announced that its subsidiary, Tepnel Pharma Services (Tepnel), has successfully achieved authorised customer service provider (CSP) status in the Ion Torrent Service […]

Bangalore: With the aim of making genomics-based diagnostics accessible and affordable for people in India, Strand Life Sciences Private Limited, a global life sciences & clinical genomics company headquartered in Bangalore, entered into a partnership with theMazumdar-Shaw Medical Foundation (MSMF) to set up the Strand at Mazumdar-Shaw (SAMS) translationallabin the Mazumdar-Shaw Centre for Translational Research […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Fluxion Biosciences announced the introduction of a new series of assay kits design to enhance and complete the workflow for next-generation sequencing (NGS) using the IsoFlux System. The IsoFlux™ NGS assay kits are designed to work with circulating tumor material enriched on the IsoFlux System. They significantly increase the overall target […]

The world’s largest genomics company, Illumina, has chosen a researcher from The University of Queensland to join as Director of Scientific Research. Dr Ryan Taft, from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), has started with the billion-dollar global company, which is based in San Diego. Dr Taft, who will maintain a joint appointment at UQ, […]