TORONTO — Genetics software startup PhenoTips® announced today that it has raised CAD $2.5 million in an oversubscribed seed fundraising round led by the GreenSky Accelerator Fund IV. This round includes the support of the Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners, Thin Air Labs, Yorkville Partners, and angel investors including members of the GreenSky President’s Club. PhenoTips empowers healthcare […]

Omniome’s high accuracy short-read sequencing platform expected to significantly expand PacBio’s market opportunity Acquisition expected to accelerate the adoption of SMRT Sequencing, PacBio’s leading long-read sequencing platform PacBio also closes $300 million PIPE financing in support of transaction MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACB)(“Pacific Biosciences” or “PacBio”), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read […]

New CF®850 and CF®870 dyes mark the first commercially available fluorescent dyes with emission beyond 850 nm. Fremont, CA —  Biotium, a leading supplier and inventor of fluorescent probes for life science research, announces the release of infrared CF®850 and CF®870 dyes. These novel long wavelength dyes are the first commercially available fluorescent dyes with […]

Applied Biosystems QuantStudio Absolute Q Digital PCR System*, the first integrated digital PCR solution, is ideal for oncology, cell and gene therapy development and other research applications WALTHAM, Mass. — Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today launched the Applied Biosystems QuantStudio Absolute Q Digital PCR System, the first fully […]

MELBOURNE, Australia — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that the National Project of Bio Big Data in Korea has selected Illumina technology for the second pilot project in their effort to work towards establishing a national digital library on health and genome data by 2028. The multi-ministerial project is overseen by the Ministry of Health […]

Technology leaders to jointly explore accessible, high-performance DNA/RNA sequencing solutions powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to improve patient care and outcomes Austin, Texas Advances in DNA/RNA sequencing promise to revolutionize how medical communities identify, detect, and treat diseases and manage public health threats. To make this technology more accessible and increase its impact, Oracle […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Creating the industry’s first powerful workflow innovation in more than 30 years for plasmid prep and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cleanup, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launches the EMnetik System to semi-automate workflows while drastically reducing the amount of time required to achieve a PCR cleanup. Built using electromagnets, EMnetik 24 and the accompanying EMnetik […]

Diverse investments from Israel, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) has selected seven new genomics companies to join the third global funding cycle of Illumina Accelerator. The global company creation engine, focused on partnering with entrepreneurs to build breakthrough genomics startups, invested in four companies […]

Oncomine Dx Target Test now approved as CDx for five targeted NSCLC therapies in the U.S. CARLSBAD, Calif. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Oncomine Dx Target Test as a companion diagnostic (CDx) to identify patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) Exon20 insertion mutation-positive metastatic […]

— Latest Variants of Concern, AY.1 and AY.2 Controls Now Available for Development of Accurate Diagnostic Tests — SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — 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 that it has started shipping its synthetic RNA reference […]