CAMBRIDGE, Mass., — GenoSpace, LLC, a company that builds information systems capable of storing and integrating genomic information and other health data for clinical care and advanced research, today announced the addition of Daniel Meyer as Chief Financial Officer. “We have been working with Dan in an advisory relationship since forming the company, and are […]

SHANGHAI, — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its Applied Biosystems 3500xL Dx Genetic Analyzer has been approved by China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) for clinical diagnostic use in China and the launch of 10 Assays from its joint venture with Daan Gene. The development marks a major extension of Life […]

Bina Technologies, the genomic big data science platform accelerating personalized medicine, today announced that it has closed a $6.25 million round of Series B financing led by Sierra Ventures. Founded in 2011 by experts in complex, large-scale genomics, big data and high-performance computing, Bina’s mission is to process and mine vast volumes of genomic information […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that District Court Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted Illumina’s motion for summary judgment that its sequencing systems do not infringe U.S. Patent Nos. 5,616,478; 5,958,698 and 6,001,568, being asserted by Life Technologies Corporation in a […]

SAN DIEGO, — BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BMR) announced today the signing of two new leases for 15 years with Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) at its Science Center at Oyster Point property in the heart of the South San Francisco, California life science submarket. Life Technologies, a global biotechnology company, will fully occupy […]

REDWOOD CITY, CA and BOSTON, MA –- Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of biomedical information and genomics analysis solutions, and GeneInsight®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Partners HealthCare and a leading developer of software to support reporting for genetic testing laboratories, today announced that they will collaborate on an integrated workflow solution, encompassing the annotation, […]

Boston, MA and Greenwood, SC –— Cartagenia, the world leader in providing genetic labs and clinicians software-based workflow support for variant assessment, lab reporting, and integration of diagnostic knowledge-bases, announced today that it has signed a license agreement for its BENCHlab NGS and CNV solutions with South Carolina-based Greenwood Genetic Center, a non-profit institute that […]

Shenzhen, China and Mountain View Calif. – BGI-Shenzhen (“BGI”), a leading international genomics organization based in Shenzhen, China, today announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Beta Acquisition Corporation, it has successfully completed the acquisition of Complete Genomics, Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: GNOM) (“Complete”), an innovative leader in accurate whole human genomic sequencing. BGI accomplished the acquisition […]

Ebersberg, Germany, – Eurofins MWG Operon and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, have recently signed a cooperation agreement on the genome sequencing analysis of Ash (Fraxinus excelsior). The major aim of this project is to increase our understanding of the wide spreading fungal tree disease – ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus […]

Granada and Madrid, Spain and Madison, WI, U.S., – Integromics®, a market leader in IT solutions for life sciences in the field of genomics and proteomics, today announces that it has entered into a consortium for the research on new methods to process quickly and efficiently the large sets of data that are produced in […]