70,000 sq. ft. facility expands the company’s biopharma, chemical and cold chain storage capacities DUBLIN, Ireland — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, the world leader in serving science, today announced the opening of a new, 70,000 sq.ft. distribution center in Bracetown, County Meath, Ireland. The facility significantly expands the company’s infrastructure in Ireland, one of the […]

IPSWICH, Mass. — New England Biolabs (NEB®), a world leader in the production of reagents for the life science industry, is extending its global subsidiary network with the opening of New England Biolabs India Pvt. Ltd. (NEB India) at Phoenix Asia Towers in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. India has long been a global leader in the life […]

São Paulo, Brazil – MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (MGI), a company delicated to developing tools and technologies that drive innovation in life sciences, today announced a strategic partnership with NeoGenomica, a leading Brazilian laboratory specialising in advanced genetic testing. The collaboration aims to expand access to genomics applications in oncology, rare diseases, and precision medicine […]

Proven experience in leveraging AI in biology will strengthen the board of directors as PacBio develops data tools to maximize the power of HiFi sequencing MENLO PARK, Calif. — PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing technologies, today announced the appointment of Christopher Gibson, Ph.D., to PacBio’s Board of Directors. Dr. Gibson […]

Dataset grows to more than 312,000 whole genomes with longitudinal clinical data GSK is one of the first to lead a further expansion of 50,000 whole genomes paired with proteomic data   SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), and Nashville Biosciences, LLC (NashBio), today announced two advancements in scale and depth of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD […]

Appoints Frederik Decouttere as CEO LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Alithea Genomics, an emerging leader in the field of large-scale RNA sequencing and transcriptomics, announced today the closing of its seed financing round with an additional CHF 3 million ($3.9 million), led by Genku Ventures and joined by Novalis Biotech and Zürcher Kantonalbank as well as several […]

NATICK, Mass. — Pillar Biosciences today announced the launch of the oncoReveal® Rapid AML Panel, a focused research-use-only (RUO) DNA next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel designed to help laboratories generate key acute myeloid leukemia (AML) genomic results more efficiently. AML is an aggressive hematologic malignancy where molecular characterization can be time-sensitive in research settings for operational workflow and investigational assessment. The […]

SHENZHEN, China — MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (“MGI”), a company dedicated to developing core tools and technologies that drive innovation in the life sciences, today announced the acquisition of STOmics and CycloneSEQ. It marks a significant milestone in MGI’s “SEQALL+GLI+Omics” strategy, positioning the company as the world’s only manufacturer of core life science tools spanning short-read […]

Increased adoption of clinical whole-genome sequencing is advancing diagnostics for rare diseases, which affect 15 million American children SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that Illumina Laboratory Services, Illumina’s CLIA-certified laboratory, is providing clinical sequencing and interpretation services to the new Diagnostic Lab at Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases (IPRD) at Florida […]

Integration of Takara Bio USA’s Trekker® reagent kit with Illumina’s Single Cell 3′ RNA Prep assay delivers high-density, high-sensitivity spatial data with true single-cell resolution SAN JOSE, Calif. — Takara Bio USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., today announced that it presented a scientific poster at the Advances in Genome Biology […]