November 30, 2017
LAS VEGAS -- Today at AWS re:Invent, Edico Genome revealed its DRAGEN Complete Suite (DRAGEN CS) on AWS Marketplace, a comprehensive package of pipelines that enables AWS users to access all of DRAGEN's applications for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis in one click. Pieter van Rooyen, Ph.D., president and CEO at Edico Genome, and Rami Mehio, vice president of [...]
Vela Diagnostics Receives CE-IVD for Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Kit
November 30, 2017
Vela Diagnostics Sentosa® SX Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Kit receives CE-IVD approval Singapore – Vela Diagnostics announced today that the Sentosa® SX Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Kit is now CE-IVD marked for in-vitro diagnostics use. The Sentosa® SX Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Kit is intended to extract free-circulating DNA from human plasma. The kit is developed for use in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) [...]
November 30, 2017
PARIS Aenitis Technologies, which develops new medical equipment based on acoustic manipulation of biological particles, today announced that it has received €4 million in funding, following its application to the highly-selective SME Instrument Phase 2 European programme, in the “Healthcare Biotechnology” category. SME Instrument Phase 2 is part of Horizon 2020, a programme managed by [...]
November 30, 2017
MADISON, WI USA Promega Corporation’s new Maxwell® RSC PureFood Pathogen Kit offers food safety labs an easy and consistent automated DNA purification method for PCR-based testing of food pathogens. The kit does not require enzymatic pre-treatment and, when used in combination with the Maxwell RSC Instrument, can effectively purify DNA from 1 to 16 food matrix samples [...]
November 30, 2017
RowAnalytics has combined artificial intelligence, semantics and science in an unprecedented manner to truly enable precision medicine. Their technology is the first with the capability of analyzing all forms of biological, genomic and clinical data (including scans and images) together at the same time. Moreover, they are the first with the capability of analyzing all [...]
Unlocking the Puzzle of Neurodegenerative Diseases
November 29, 2017
Unlocking the Puzzle of Neurodegenerative Diseases Postnova Analytics reports that the Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology at the University of Sheffield (UK) is using their AF2000 Field Flow Fractionation system to investigate the mechanism of amyloid formation, a protein mis-folding process implicated to be the cause of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Understanding the [...]
November 29, 2017
Tailored Workflows and Curated Analytics Provide Visibility Across Relevant Data Domains for Medical Monitors WHAT: PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced the launch of PerkinElmer Signals™ Medical Review. This new cloud-based analytics and visualization solution provides medical monitors in clinical development with smarter insights to quickly detect safety signals [...]
November 29, 2017
Emeryville, Calif. – Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), a company dedicated to bringing to market transformational platforms for biopharmaceutical processes, announced today that Teva Pharmaceuticals Australia, Pty. Ltd. has implemented BLI’s Beacon platform in their antibody discovery programs. The Beacon platform is capable of screening thousands of antibody producing cells in less than a day. Cell characterizations [...]
November 29, 2017
Empire Genomics announced today that it has entered into a new strategic partnership with KromaTiD to provide a comprehensive offering that helps researchers and clinicians better understand the genomic abnormalities of cancer patients. Empire Genomics CEO Anthony Johnson stated “KromaTiD’s Pinpoint FISH probes are a perfect complement to our existing FISH probe portfolio, allowing us [...]
Illumina Opens First Commercial and Customer Training Center in France
November 29, 2017
Customer Solutions Center will train up to 1,000 people a year in latest genomics technologies PARIS -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the opening of its Solutions Center on the Genopole Campus in Évry, near Paris. The leading-edge customer training center will offer demonstrations, instruction, and education in the latest genomics technologies from Illumina for up to 1,000 scientists a [...]

