CARLSBAD, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), Japan’s regulatory agency, has granted approval for the Oncomine Dx Target Test as a next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based companion diagnostic (CDx) for patients with RET-fusion positive non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who may be treated with Eli Lilly and Company’s selpercatinib (formerly known […]

Roche to acquire the TIB Molbiol Group with the expectation to close in fourth quarter of 2021 TIB Molbiol excels in ultra-rapid assay development for emerging infectious disease, strongly demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic The acquisition enables Roche to further expand the portfolio of currently over 45 CE-IVD assays and more than 100 research use assays on Roche`s LightCycler PCR instruments […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — GenapSys (Genapsys), a company developing a highly accurate and scalable electronic sequencing platform, today announced the additions of Priya Ray and Peter Swider to the Company’s leadership team as well as the launch of the company’s new branding and corporate website, www.genapsys.com. “We are pleased to welcome Priya and Peter to our accomplished and growing leadership team,” said Jason Meyers, […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Genapsys, Inc. (Genapsys), a company developing a highly accurate and scalable electronic sequencing platform, today announced the additions of Priya Ray and Peter Swider to the Company’s leadership team as well as the launch of the company’s new branding and corporate website, www.genapsys.com. “We are pleased to welcome Priya and Peter […]

– Research collaboration covers multiple antibody research programs – SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & INGELHEIM, Germany — Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced a broad-based research collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH to use Twist’s proprietary antibody libraries […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) elevates climate action goals with commitments for net zero greenhouse gas emissions aligned with the Paris Agreement, commits to verified Science Based Targets, signs the Business Ambition for 1.5 degree and joins the United Nations campaign Race to Zero. “Human health and the health of our environment are intertwined. At Illumina, […]

CHICAGO — Bringing an added level of confidence to the robust science that its assay offers, the bioMérieux, Inc. GENE-UP® NUTRAPLEX PRO™ multiplex pathogen detection assay has achieved the AOAC®  Research Institute Performance Tested MethodsSM approval (PTM 082103).  AOAC validation demonstrated statistical equiavalence to the U.S. Food and Drug (FDA) and U. S. Pharmacopeia (USP) reference methods for the detection […]

NEW YORK — Biotia, Inc., a company that delivers proprietary analytical software for infectious disease diagnostics, is experiencing rapid adoption by clinical researchers worldwide of its user-friendly software platform for the comprehensive surveillance  and deeper insights into COVID-19 viral genetic variants. Biotia’s COVID-DX software has been optimized for researchers sequencing COVID-19 clinical specimens and wastewater samples using the popular […]

Today, LGC announces that Euan O’Sullivan has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the organisation with immediate effect. Euan succeeds Tim Robinson, who will become Chairman of LGC having served as Chief Executive since May 2013. After joining LGC in 2007 as a Non-Executive Director, Euan served as Corporate Development Director from July 2010 […]

SAN DIEGO and SHANGHAI, China — Bionano Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNGO) announced today that NuProbe Global, a global molecular diagnostics company based in Shanghai, China and Houston, Texas, has adopted Bionano’s Saphyr system for optical genome mapping (OGM) to integrate their Quantitative Amplicon Sequencing (QASeq) and Blocker Displacement Amplification (BDA) technologies for research and product […]