ORLANDO, Fla.  — The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Edico Genome today set a new scientific world standard in rapidly processing whole human genomes into data files useable for researchers aiming to bring precision medicine into mainstream clinical practice. Utilizing Edico Genome’s DRAGENTM Genome Pipeline, deployed on 1,000 Amazon EC2 F1 instances on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced the commercial launch of the Applied Biosystems Axiom Africa Array for medical and population genomics to accelerate and support initiatives in global health and population research. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Thermo Fisher Scientific combined their respective expertise in human genomic analysis and informatics to co-develop the [...]

- Company's Carlsbad manufacturing facility passes FDA and EMA inspections - Underscores capabilities as commercial manufacturer of viral and gene therapy products Viruses can be used in gene therapy applications to transfer therapeutic genes - Highlights position as leading contract manufacturing organization (CMO) for production of next-generation gene therapies BURLINGTON, Mass. -- MilliporeSigma today announced that its Carlsbad, California-based [...]

Partnerships with Genomics England, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, and The Utah Genome Project demonstrate diagnostic utility of Fabric Genomics’ algorithm-based genome analysis ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fabric Genomics has partnered with Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM), and The Utah Genome Project (UGP), to provide fast and accurate identification of pediatric disease-causing variants to improve [...]

Industry Leaders Partner to Provide Streamlined Variant Data Analysis Solution ORLANDO, Fla. -- Today at the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting, Edico Genome and Fabric Genomicsannounced their collaboration to provide an integrated solution for secondary and tertiary analysis of next-generation sequencing data. Through this partnership, users can seamlessly utilize Edico Genome's DRAGENTM Bio-IT platform with Fabric Genomics' Opal™ Clinical [...]

  EDAX Granted Patent for Neighbor Pattern Averaging and Reindexing (NPAR) Routine MAHWAH, NJ – EDAX Inc., a business unit of AMETEK Materials Analysis Division, has been granted a U.S. patent for the technology that underlies its NPAR Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) routine in EDAX’s TEAM and OIM Analysis software packages. The NPAR method utilizes an [...]

V2017.1 release of ACD/Spectrus software introduces an innovative solution for impurity data management and exciting developments for deconvolution and analysis of mixtures Toronto, Canada—ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes solutions in support of R&D, today announced new updates across its ACD/Spectrus Platform, the company's suite of informatics software products. Version 2017.1 delivers improved functionality [...]

Spectris plc (‘Spectris’) (LSE: SXS), the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, today announces that it has completed the acquisition of the privately-held US company The Omnicon Group, Inc. (‘Omnicon’) for an initial consideration of $29 million. Omnicon provides a range of services to help its customers analyse and improve product reliability and safety. Key industries [...]

- New products for profiling adaptive immunity will be presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) held in Orlando, FL - PLEASANTON, CA.— 10x Genomics, a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, this week will launch new products for their Chromium™ Immune [...]

Leverages Advanced Magnetic Bead-Based Technology to Support Next Gen Sequencing, Genotyping, PCR and MLPA in Human Samples   WHAT:              PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced the launch of its chemagic™ Prime™ instrument, a new streamlined, walk-away sample processing solution which offers automated nucleic acid isolation and assay setup by combining [...]