CARLSBAD, Calif.,– Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its stockholders voted to adopt the previously announced merger agreement providing for the acquisition of Life Technologies by Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO) at the Special Meeting of Stockholders held earlier today. More than 98 percent of votes cast at the Special Meeting were in […]

Bina Technologies, the genomic big data science platform accelerating personalized medicine, today announced the launch of its Whole Exome application and Bina On-Demand offering, the latest additions to the company’s fully integrated Bina Genomic Analysis Platform, which performs whole genome analysis in 4 hours or less. Exome sequencing has long been popular due to its […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the availability of its newest reagent kits for the MiSeq, the industry’s most accurate and easiest-to-use benchtop sequencer. The improved chemistry doubles sequencing output to 15 gigabases (Gb) by increasing the number of sequencing reads (up to 25 million reads) and overall read length (up to 2×300 […]

Genohub (https://genohub.com/) announced the launch of their online market for next generation sequencing services today. The online service is positioned to completely change the way high throughput sequencing services are ordered, accelerating genomic research by improving access to sequencing services. Genohub’s intelligent sequencing matching engine (https://genohub.com/shop/proj/) instantly matches researchers with service providers based on specific […]

HERCULES, CA, — “We have been providing next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics services to research centers, and universities all around the world since 2009. It is exciting to expand our offering to include the Ion Torrent benchtop sequencing platform. While the initial services will focus on library preparation and sequence data generation we intend to further […]

enzberg, Germany and Branford, CT, USA, – Roche announced today the global launch of a new software update that significantly extends the range of amplicon lengths available for targeted next-generation sequencing studies on the 454 GS FLX+ System. The latest software enables sequencing of amplicons up to 800 bp while maintaining >99% accuracy over the […]

RURO and Appistry are pleased to announce their partnership to deliver integrated solutions for Big-Data Lab Management for Production-Scale NGS. Automation is a fact of life for modern labs. But effectively managing the increasingly ubiquitous handoffs between humans, instruments, and computers requires ways to expedite and support both the physical work performed in the lab […]

Redwood City, CA – Bina Technologies, the genomic big data science platform accelerating personalized medicine, today announced that they have added to their Series B financing round with $1.75M in additional funding, bringing their total Series B round to $8M. The additional funding was led by Mohsen Moazami at Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP) and […]

MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR® announced that it received a Phase II SBIR grant award from the National Institutes of Health entitled, “Association Analysis Software for Mining Clinical Next-Gen Sequencing Data”. This is the second phase of a project initially funded in 2012 to support the company’s research and development aimed at expanding its industry-leading sequence […]

The 100K Genome Project, led by the University of California, Davis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, and Agilent Technologies, today announced that it has added 20 newly completed genome sequences of foodborne disease-causing microorganisms to its public database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The genomes […]