Menarini-Silicon Biosystems and Swift Biosciences Announce Collaboration to Offer Customized NGS Technologies for Tumor Cell Analysis

Products Optimized for Targeted Resequencing and Exome Sequencing of FFPE Cells

BOLOGNA, Italy – Menarini-Silicon Biosystems Inc., a developer and manufacturer of technologies and products that help uncover the biological complexities of dis­ease at the single-cell level, and Swift Biosciences, Inc., a developer of innovative technologies for sample preparation for next-generation sequencing (NGS), today announced their collaboration to offer customized NGS products for oncology research and diagnostics. Marketed by Menarini-Silicon Biosystems, the first two products developed for tumor cells from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue samples allow users to obtain high-quality, NGS results from 100 to 300 tumor and stromal cells in an optimized workflow downstream of Menarini-Silicon Biosystems’ DEPArray™ cell sorting platform.

“We are excited to continue our technology collaboration with Swift Biosciences to offer our cus­tomers reliable solutions for the genetic analysis of cells d

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